Two Stamm families arrived in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767. They had arrived together from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
(1) Nikolaus Stamm, a farmer, married to Anna Maria Gabel on 23 February 1764 in the Catholic Church in Hessheim.
Nikolaus Stamm, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria Gabel are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 2 along with orphan Michael Drinak (age 12). They had arrived in Göbel on 25 May 1767. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Stamm and Drinak families. [See Drinak Family.]
(2) Johannes Stamm, a farmer, and his brother Peter (age 16¼) arrived in Oranienbaum.
During the journey to the Volga German colonies, Johannes married Katharina Hammel, daughter of Johannes & Gertruda Hammel who were from Mainz.
Johannes Stamm, a farmer, his wife Katharina Hammel, and brother Peter (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Göbel in Household No. 43. They had arrived in Göbel on 25 May 1767. [See Hammel Family.]
Peter's widow remarried and moved to Husaren along with his children. They are recorded on the 1798 census of Husaren in Household No. Hn04.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that these Stamm families came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that both of these Stamm families came from the German village of Kellenbach in the Kurmainz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 99, 104, 114.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Gb16, Gb36, Hn04.
- Parish register of Hessheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 37, 49.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #472, #516, #616.
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