Michael Heinrich Schillereff, a farmer, his wife Sibilla, and daughters (Maria, age 8; Anna, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Perle under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Heinrich Schillereff, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife, Christina, settled in the Volga German colony of Kolb on 13 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Schillereff came from the German village of Duderstadt in Sachsen (Saxony).
Konrad & Jakob Schilleref moved from Frank to Langenfeld before 1857.
By the 1798 census, the Schillereff family was living in the neighboring colony of Frank.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Schillereff came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).
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Brent Mai