Steitz
Franz Steitz, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 July 1767. Katharina died on 13 October 1767 and Franz is recorded as a widower on the 1767 census of Straub in Household No. 57.
Georg Steitz is recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 49 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
Georg Steitz and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 5.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Franz Steitz came from the German region of Speyer.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 49).
- 1834 Neu-Straub Census (Household No. 5).
- 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): Sr49.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 243.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2060.
Brent Mai