Michael Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife, Barbara, arrived in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
A Michael Schmidt, stonemason (Maurer) from the Pfalz, and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen. This may be the same Michael Schmidt who settled in Keller.
The 1767 census records that Michael Schmidt came from the German village of Gross-Winterbach [?] in the Kurpfalz. There is a German village called Gross-Winterheim [Großwinternheim]. Further research is needed to confirm this location.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 135.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 349.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #805.
Brent Mai
Anonymous2
Entry from the 1767 census of Keller recording Michael Schmidt and his family.
Source: Anonymous2.