Leonhard Schwemmler, a printer (Buchdrucker), his wife Maria, and son Ignazius (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 12 May 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.
In 1791, Peter Schwemmler moved from Preuss to Seelmann. In 1796, Ludwig Ignatius Schwemmler moved from Preuss to Neu-Kolonie.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Leonhard Schwemmler came from the German village of Ansbach. The 1767 census records that Leonhard Schwemmler came from the German village of Ausbach.
- 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): 154.
- 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): Nk23, Sm28, Mv2358, Mv2367.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 414.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #958.
Brent Mai