Stappelfeld*
Johann Stappelfeld, a medical man (Russian = фельдшер or врач; German = Artz), his wife Anna Katharina, and daughter Anna Katharina (age 21) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the Danish galliot Der Engel Rafael under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
Joh. Joachim Stappelfeld, his wife Anna Cathrina, and daughter Anna Cathrina (age 23) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Joachim Stappelfeld, a physician (Artz), and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 35. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Joachim Stappelfeld came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Neu-Münster in the region of Holstein.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 212.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3466.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7256-7258.
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