The movement tables accompanying the 1798 census of Dinkel record that maidens Margaretha & Dorothea Stelting and Dorothea & Louisa Christophel [Christoph] were adopted in Laub in 1790. A relationship between the Stelting and Christoph families, if any, is not recorded.
Margaretha Magdalena Stelting, adopted daughter of Christian Horn, is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb02.
Dorothea Stelting, adopted daughter of Mattias Kuhlmann, is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb38.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Stelting family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Lb02, Lb38, Mv0437.
Brent Mai