Stephan (Dinkel)*
Jakob Stephan, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Maria (age 2-months) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum aboard galliot Adler under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dinkel on 27 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
In 1795, widower Jakob Stephan moved from Dinkel to Stahl am Tarlyk.
Jakob Stephan from Dinkel and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. St26.
The death of Jakob Stephan in 1801 is recorded on the 1811 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 27.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Stephan came from the German village of Klinstadt [?] in the Holstein region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Stahl am Tarlyk Census (Household No. 27).
- 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): St26, Mv0441.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 306.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #702.
Brent Mai