Widow Anna Margaretha Steinbecher and her daughter Anna Katharina (age 5½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
Orphan Katharina Steinbecher, daughter of the deceased Anna Margaretha Steinbecher, is recorded on the 1767 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 24 along with the Johann Klaus Hahn family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Steinbecher and Hahn families.
Katharina Steinbecher is recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw14 as the wife of Konrad Reimer.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that the Steinbecher family came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no surviving male lines of this Steinbecher family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 610.
- 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): Rw14.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 420.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4886.
Brent Mai