Johann Christoph Schmidt, son of Johann Heinrich Schmidt, married on 15 April 1749 in Sprendlingen to Susanna Maria Blechschmidt, daughter of Anthon Blechschmidt & Justina Sabina Löffler. She had been born 1 September 1728 in Sprendlingen.
The baptisms of nine children born to Johann Christoph Schmidt & Susanna Maria Blechschmidt are recorded in the parish register of Sprendlingen: (1) Anna Margarethe, born 14 October 1749; (2) Johann Jakob, born 21 December 1751, died 10 March 1752; (3) Maria Elisabetha, born 24 December 1752; (4) Anna Maria, born 2 July 1755, died 17 December 1759; (5) Elisabetha, born 3 March 1758; (6) Anna Maria, born 18 January 1760, died 20 October 1761; (7) Anna Maria, born 8 December 1761; (8) Susanna Maria, born 7 September 1763; and (9) Johann Georg, born 9 August 1765.
Christoph Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 18; Maria Elisabeth, age 16; Katharina Elisabeth, age 12; Anna Maria, age 8; Susanna, age 4; Johann Georg, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.
Christoph Schmidt, his wife Susanna, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 20; Maria Elisabeth, age 16; Catharina, age 12; Anna Maria, age 8; Susanna, age 3; Joh. Georg, age 2) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Susanna died en route.
Christian [sic] Schmidt, his wife Susanna, and daughters (Anna Margaretha, age 20; Maria Elisabeth, age 18; Katharina Elisabeth, age 12; Anna Maria, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household No. 61.
The 1767 census records that Christian [sic] Schmidt came from the German village of Sprendlingen in the Isenburg region.
- Knöß, Heinrich & Ute Sehring. Familienbuch Sprendlingen [Schriften der Hessischen familiengeschichtlichen Vereinigung e.V. Nr. 53] (Dreieich: 2013): #400, #4853.
- 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): Fk066.
- Parish register of Sprendlingen (LDS Film #1193263).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 428.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5698.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7423-7430.
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