Stumpf (Balzer)
Johannes Stumpf, son of Johann Conrad & Johanna Maria Stumpf from Rothenbergen, was baptized on 10 July 1718.
He married on 29 February 1748 to Anna Christina Amalia Ruppel, daughter of Johann Georg Ruppel from Langendiebach.
Anna Christina Amalia Ruppel had been born 7 November 1726 and baptized 10 November 1726 in Langendiebach.
The baptisms of the following children of Johannes Stumpf & Anna Christina Amalia Ruppel are recorded in the parish register of Gründau (each born in Rothenbergen): (1) Johann Wilhelm, born 9 May 1749, baptized 11 May 1749; (2) Anna Maria, born 19 January 1753, baptized 21 January 1753; (3) Anna Elisabetha, born 4 November 1756, baptized 7 November 1756, died 31 May 1759; (4) Johannes, born 27 January 1760, baptized 30 January 1760, died 6 July 1763; and (5) Maria Elisabetha, born 27 May 1763, baptized 1 June 1763.
Widower Johannes Stumpf, a farmer, and his children (Wilhelm, age 20; Anna Maria, age 17) settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer on 8 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 104.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Stumpf came from the German region 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): Bz023.
- Parish register of Gründau (including Rothenbergen).
- Parish register of Langendiebach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 104.
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner