Sebastian Stegmann, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Klara, age 20; Johann Adam, age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Стрельна (Strelna - a village near St. Petersburg) under the command of Midshipman Login Sornev.
Widower Sebastian Stegmann, a farmer, and his son Johann Adam (age 15) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 93. They had arrived in Pfeifer on 20 August 1767.
Sebastian's son, Peter, is recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel (Gb26) with a note that he is working in the colony of Semenovka.
Johannes Stegmann from Pfeifer and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 10.
Mattias Stegmann from Göbel and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 57.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Sebastian Stegmann came from the German district of Mainz while the 1767 census records that he came from the district of Aschaffenburg (which used to belong to the Archbishopric of Mainz).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Households No. 10, 57).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 622.
- 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): Gb26, Pf44.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 399.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4993.
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