Christoph Stier, a single miller (Müller), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johann Christoph Stier, a miller (Müller), and his wife Margaretha Barbara are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 72. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
Christoph Stier and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo33.
Johann Gottlieb Stier, son of Christoph Stier, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Jost in Household No. 8. Another son, Johann Rudolph, and his family are recorded there in Household No. 9.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Christoph Stier came from the German region of Brandenburg.
- 1834 Jost Census (Households No. 8, 9).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 827.
- 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): Jo31.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 211.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6618.
Brent Mai