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Stöhr (Katharinenstadt)*

Christoph Daniel Stöhr, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 62.

Daniel Stöhr and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka052.

The 1767 census records that Christoph Daniel Stöhr came from the German region of Schwerin.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Heinemann*

Lorenz Heinemann, his wife Maria, and daughter Charlotta (age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.

Lorentz Heinemann, his wife Maria, and daughter Charlotta (age 2¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Charlotta died en route.

In 1786, Lorenz Heinemann and his family moved from Katharinenstadt to the Caucasus.

The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Lorenz Heinemann came.