Johann Georg Schmitt married on 12 May 1744 in Großen-Buseck to Anna Margaretha Grommes. They had 6 known children, all born in Großen-Buseck, north of Frankfurt: (1) Caspar, born 11 September 1746; (2) Johann Philipp, born 26 December 1747 & died 6 January 1751; (3) Catharina, born 14 December 1749; (4) Johann Daniel, born 11 April 1752; (5) Maria Gertraud, born 11 November 1757; and (6) Johann Philipp, born 15 June 1760.
Georg Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 18; Daniel, age 16¼; Maria, age 10¼; Johann, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen. Oldest son Johann [Kaspar] and his [new] wife Anna were also on this ship.
Widow A. Margreta Schmid [sic] and her children (Catarina, age 17½; Johann Christian, age 15; Gerdruta, age 9¾; Johann, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with Joh. Casp. Schmidt and his wife Anna Maria.
Widow Anna Schmidt and her children (Katharina, age 18; Daniel, age 16; Maria, age 11; Philipp, age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulaksya in Household No. 61. Son Johann Kaspar Schmidt and his [new] wife Anna are recorded in Household No. 56 along with orphan Konrad Folnis/Magel (age 16¼). [See Magel Family.] They had arrived in Paulskaya on 17 August 1767.
The family moved to Hockerberg where widow Anna Margaretha Schmidt married widower Kaspar Schmidt whose wife had also died during the journey to Russia.
In 1770, Kaspar [erroneously recorded as Karl] Schmidt, his wife Anna Margaretha, and her two sons by the previous marriage to Johann Georg Schmid (Johann Daniel & Philipp) moved to Basel. On the 1798 census, widower Johann Caspar is still living in Basel at age 75 in Household No. Bs41.
Son Daniel's widow and children are recorded on the 1798 census in Basel, Household No. Bs27. Anna's son Kaspar remained in Hockerberg and is recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Hb04. In 1774, daughter Maria Gertrude married Johann Hein from Biberstein and moved there. They are recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Bb08. In 1788, son Johann Philipp also married in Biberstein where his family is recorded in Household No. Bb33 on the 1798 census.
Georg Philipp Schmidt, son of Philipp Schmidt, is recorded on the 1857 census of Hockerberg along with a note that he moved to Fischer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Schmidt family came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1857 Hockerberg Schmidt (Household No. 19).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 502, 505.
- 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): Bs41, Hb04, Mv0863.
- Müller, Hanno. Grossen-Busecker Familienbuch (Fernwald-Steinbach: Müller, 1993 & 1999).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 360.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3941, #3970.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5223-5224, #6027-6031.
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