Thomas Lostetter [sic], a merchant, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Thomas Stetter [sic], a butcher (Fleischer), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55.
An unnamed [orphaned?] Stetter [sic] boy (age 15) is recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm01 along with the Brost family. The 1798 census does not record a relationship between the Brost and Stetter [sic] families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Thomas Lostetter [sic] came from the [Austrian] region of Tirol. The 1767 census records that Thomas Stetter came from the Austrian [valley] of Pustertal in the Tirol region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 384.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 122.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2938.
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