Steininger (Unknown)*
Georg Steininger, a tailor, his wife Maria, and children (Joseph, age 16¼; Ferdinand, age 11, Maria, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier. [Subsequent documents record that Ferdinand is actually a stepson with the surname of Müller. Joseph is presumed to also be a stepson with the surname of Müller.]
There is a Georg Steininger and his wife Barbara who are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. However, the children (including Ferdinand Müller) are not recorded with them.
Johann Georg Steininger, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Eva are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 109 along with stepdaughter Margaretha Stecker (age 2) and stepson Ferdinand Müller (age 12).
It is not known in which colony the Steininger family settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Steininger came from Austria. The 1767 census records that he came from the town of Berg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Steininger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 372.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4760.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7013-7014.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Georg Steininger and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.