Johannes Scheidemantel [sic], son of Johannes Scheidemantel & Anna Martha Heintz, was born on 19 June 1739 in Rotensee and baptized 21 June 1739.
Johannes Scheidemantel [sic] married on 2 April 1765 in Unterhaun to Anna Margaretha Wölcker.
Anna Margaretha, daughter of Caspar Wölcker & Anna Elisabeth Klotzbach, was born 11 November 1728 in Rotensee and baptized 14 November 1728.
The baptism of a son born in Rotensee to Johannes Scheidemantel [sic] & Anna Margaretha Wölcker is recorded in the parish register of Unterhaun: (1) Niclaus, born 31 May 1765, baptized 2 June 1765.
Johann Scheidemantel [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and son Nikolaus (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Johannes Scheidemann, a farmer from Hessen, and his wife, Anna Margaretha, settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 84.
Johannes Scheidemann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr182.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Scheidemantel [sic] came from the German region of Hessen.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 173).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 487.
- 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): Nr182.
- Parish register of Unterhaun.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 251.
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