Stirtz / Stürtz (Norka)
Michael Stürtz, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Kronverk under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin. They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 115.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Michael Stürtz came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 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): Nr063, Nr083.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 259.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2723.
Brent Mai