Johann Jakob Schimpf, son of Johann Conrad Schimpf & Anna Schaurer, was born 6 June 1721 in Reichelsheim. He married on 27 June 1743 in Bensheim to Anna Catharina Deichert, daughter of Johann Andreas & Maria Elisabetha Deichert from Zell. She had been born 3 December 1718 in Zell.
The births of 5 children are recorded in the parish register of Reichelsheim: (1) Anna Margaretha, born 6 October 1744, died 1 November 1746; (2) Johann Georg, born 20 October 1747; (3) Maria Catharina, born 10 June 1749, died 1 July 1749; (4) Johann Nicolaus, born 27 August 1750, died 28 November 1751; and (5) Anna Margaretha, born 8 February 1754, died 2 September 1764.
Jakob Schimpf, a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 20; Nikolaus, age 10¼; Jakob, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in Dobrinka on 20 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 69.
In 1790, Jakob Schimpf and his family moved from Dobrinka to Galka.
Friedrich Schimpf from Dobrinka and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Oberdorf in Household No. 18.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Schimpf came from the German region of Erbach.
- 1857 Oberdorf Census (Households No. 18, 28).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 256.
- 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): Db05, Gk52, Gk54, Mv0451.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 332.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1840.
- Wolf, Heiner. Familienbuch Reichelsheim: 1643-1875, Band 2 (2018): 1331.
Peter Aifeld
Brent Mai