Anna Maria (Döll) Steinmetz (1741 - bef. 1834)

Born 22 Mar 1741 in Heckenbergheim, Bergheim (Ortenberg), Wetteraukreis, Hessen, Roman Empire

Wife of Johann Peter Steinmetz — married 17 Jul 1764 in Heldenbergen, Friedberg, Hessen, Germany

Descendants

Died before 1834 before age 92 in Walter, Saratov, Volga, Russia

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Biography

Anna Maria (Döll) Steinmetz was a Volga German.

Anna Maria Döll was born in March 1741 and baptized on 22 Mar 1741 in Heckenbergheim to Erasmus (Asmus) Döll and Elisabetha Catharina Kunckel. This location is now Bergheim (Ortenberg), Wetteraukreis, Hessen, Germany.^[1]

Anna Maria married Johannes Petrus Steinmetz in Heldenbergen (Friedberg) on 17 Jul 1764.^[2]

She came with her husband to the Volga German colonies and had a one-week old newborn by the time they arrived from the ship to Walter colony. Her parents are the Döll families who settled in Walter and are reported on the Walter First Setter’s List in Families #34, #35, and #36.

• First Settlers of Walter 1767^[3]:
  • (98) Johannes Peter Steinmetz, 27, Lutheran, Roman Empire, Hanau county, Ekebergen, craftsman
    • Wife, Anna Maria, 25
      • new-born son Johannes, one week

She is listed in Walter census records as wife to Johann Peter Steinmetz.

Anna Maria Steinmetz most likely died before 1834 in Walter, Volga, Russia.

Johann Peter Steinmetz (son of Heinrich Steinmetz and his wife Anna Elisabeth) married Anna Maria Döll in the Catholic Church in Heldenbergen on 17 July 1764. The marriage record notes that they were both Lutheran. Anna Maria was the daughter of Erasmus Döll, and was baptized in Heckenbergheim (today called Bergheim) on 22 March 1741. Johann Peter and Anna Maria had one child in Heckenbergheim: a son Johann Jacob, born 12 November and baptized 17 November 1765, who was named for his father's brother Johann Jacob Steinmetz, a resident of Heldenbergen.

Johann Peter and Anna Maria arrived in Russia without any children on 13 September 1766. They settled in Walter and are reported in the Walter 1767 Census (First Settlers List) in Household #98, along with their one-week old son Johannes.

Heckenbergheim is near Gelnhaar and Usenborn and is today called Bergheim.^[4]

Johann Peter Steinmetz, son of Heinrich & Anna Elisabeth Steinmetz, married in the Catholic Church in Heldenbergen on 17 July 1764 to Anna Maria Döll, daughter of Erasmus Döll [See Döll Family]. [The marriage register records that they were both Lutheran.]

Anna Maria Döll had been baptized in Heckenbergheim [today called Bergheim] on 22 March 1741.

Johann Peter Steinmetz and Anna Maria Döll had one child whose baptism is recorded in the parish register of Heckenbergheim: Johann Jacob, born 12 November 1765, baptized 17 November 1765.

The lists of recruiter Johann Facius record that on 13 February 1766, gathering at Aufenau to move to Russia, is the family of Johannes Steinmetz (age 26), a cobbler (Schuhmacher), with his wife and 2 children.

Johann Peter Steinmetz, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 10 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 98 along with their son Johannes (age one-week).

In 1858-1859, descendants of this Steinmetz family moved to the daughter colony of Brunnental.

The Facius list records that Johannes Steinmetz came from the German village of Hegeberg. The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Steinmitz came from the German village of Ekebergen [sic] in the region of Hanau.^[5]

Census

Family #14 in the 1798 Census^[6]

1798 Census of Walter, Saratov, Russia

No. 14

1. Steinmetz, Peter, age 59 [Has not made 3-ruble payments for four years]
2. Döll, Anna Maria, wife, age 56
3. Valentin, son, age 27
4. Eisel, Elisabeta, wife to Valentin, age 24
5. Johann Peter, son to Valentin, age 1
6. Johann Peter, son, age 20
7. Weigand, son, age 17

Sources

1. ↑ Döll|Hein|Volga Germans
   • Parish records of Usenborn-Bergheim on Archion.de
   • Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): p. 384
   • Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 2008): p. 302-303
2. ↑ Natalie Vil contribution Marriage Record:"Deutschland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Diözese Mainz, Katholische Kirchenbücher, 1540-1952", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DTT9-7RPZ : 8 December 2020), Anna Maria Döll in entry for Joannes Petrus Steinmetz, 1764.
3. ↑ AHSGR Walters First Settlers List; www.ahsgr.org: Members Only Villages Lists
4. ↑ Steinmetz|VolgaGermans.org|Researchers::Jerry Steinmetz/Natalie Vil
   • Parish records of Catholic Church Heldenbergen, Diocese of Mainz, FHL Film #939747
   • Parish records of Evangelische Kirche Bergheim (Kr. Buedingen), FHL Film #1201735
   • Parish records of Usenborn-Bergheim on Archion.de
   • Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010) p. 395.
   • Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institute, 2008): p. 317.
5. ↑ Steinmetz|Walter|Jerry Steinmetz/Natalie Vil/Brent Mai
   • List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
   • 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): Wt014.
   • Parish register of Heldenbergen [Diocese of Mainz] (LDS Film No. 939747).
   • Parish register of Bergheim (LDS Film No. 1201735).
   • Parish register of Usenborn-Bergheim.
   • Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 317.
   • Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6258 [erroneously printed as #6252].
6. ↑ 1798 Walter Census, No. 2862 A Description of the Saratov Colony of Grechinaya Luka also known as Walter, no. 143; American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, NE, USA. Published 1996. Page 4 Register, Family #14 Steinmetz, Peter.