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Steinmetz (Dietel)

Johann Peter Steinmetz, son of Johann Georg Steinmetz & Anna Barbara Gödel of Wörsbach, was baptized on 6 May 1723 in Heimkirchen, a village directly north of Kaiserslautern in what today is the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz [Wörsbach is just to the southwest of Heimkirchen]. Johann Peter married in Heimkirchen on 14 January 1744 to Anna Elisabeth Deno, daughter of Balthasar Deno & Appolonia Buhl. She had also been baptized in Heimkirchen on 1 October 1730.

Stoll (Dönhof)

Johann Friedrich Stoll, son of Johann Konrad Stoll, was born on 12 December 1735 in Adelshofen. He married on 17 November 1758 in nearby Ittlingen to Maria Eva Schuhmacher, daughter of Johann Ulrich & Anna Eva Schuhmacher. Maria Eva had been born on 14 April 1732 in Ittlingen.

Johann Friedrich Stoll & Maria Eva Schuhmacher had two children, each baptized in Ittlingen: (1) Johann Konrad, born 15 March 1760, baptized 17 March 1760, died 22 August 1760; and (2) Maria Margaretha, baptized in 1761.

Sterger / Störger

Johann Georg Störger, son of Dietrich Störger & Maria Margaretha Held, was born 8 May 1722 in Groß-Zimmern. He married there on 24 October 1741 to Anna Eva Hammer, daughter of Johannes Hammer. She had been born in nearby Groß-Bieberau on 2 July 1720.  The baptismal of three of his children are recorded there: (1) Eva, born 9 October 1744; (2) Ludwig, born 11 September 1754; and (3) Johannes Georg, born 27 March 1758.

In 1763, this family immigrated to Schleswig-Holstein, then a part of Denmark before moving on to Russia.

Stiehl

Johann Philipp Stiehl, son of Heinrich Stiehl of Bierstadt/Wiesbaden, married on 31 October 1758 in Trais-Horloff, northwest of Nidda, to Anna Catharina Raab, daughter of Johannes Raab & Anna Margaretha Grothe. She had been born there on 6 February 1742.

They had three known children: (1) Johann Ludwig, born 26 November 1759; (2) Johann Friedrich, born 8 June 1762; and (3) Johann Henrich, born 18 March 1764.

Stössel (Dehler)

Johann Heinrich Stössel was born in 1730 in Undenheim, a village in the Mainz-Bingen district about 12 kilometers northwest of Worms, in what today is part of Rhineland-Palatinate. He married Maria Katharina Steinmetz, daughter of Johann Adam & Christina Steinmetz, on 3 May 1758 in the Catholic Church in Westhofen, a village between Undenheim and Worms. Today, Westhofen is part of the collective municipality called Wonnegau. She had been baptized on 28 December 1732 in Deidesheim, southwest of Worms.      

Strohmann

Michael Strohmann, son of Christian Strohmann, married on 9 November 1757 in Bolzhurst to Catharina Adolph, daughter of Philipp Adolph. Catharina Adolph had been born in Legelshurst on 1 October 1734 and baptized on 3 October 1734.

Stromberger

Johann Conrad Stromberger, son of Georg Stromberger (1667 - 16 March 1733) and Anna Katharina Hartmann (18 September 1670 - 10 September 1736) was born 24 June 1698 in Spachbrücken, Dieburg, Hessen-Darmstadt. He married in Spachbrücken on 27 April 1730 to Anna Elisabeth Kopp, daughter of Johann Nikolaus Kob/Koop and Elisabeth Barbara Stochard. She was born 20 August 1709 in Reinheim.

Suppes (Hussenbach-1)

Johann Martin Suppes, son of Heinrich Suppes, was born on 15 February 1715 in Unter-Seibertenrod.

Johan Martin Suppus [sic], a blacksmith (Schmidt [sic]) from the area of Riedesel, & Gerdrut [sic] Schotten née Rod, a widow from the area of Isenburg, were married on 29 July 1766 in Pastor Bruns's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.

Stroh (Frank)

Johann Philipp Stroh, son of Johann Georg Stroh & Gertraude Neubecker, was born 23 October 1712 in Sprendlingen. He married in Sprendlingen on 2 December 1738 to Catharina Schickedanz, daughter of Cyriac Schickedanz & Anna née Schickedanz. Catharina had been born in Sprendlingen on 3 June 1711.

Kader*

Elisabeth Margaretha Kader, daughter of Johannes Leonhard & Anna Maria Kader, was born on 1 July 1741 and baptized on 3 July 1741 in Höchst.

Anna Margaretha Kather of Höchst in the area of Erbach & Johann Adam Thürnoff from Eschen were married 28 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen. Other spellings of this surname in various records include Dirolf, Thüruff, and Tyrolff.