Johann Schäfer, a single tailor (Schneider), 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 Schäfer, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Henriette Julianna settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
Widower Johannes Schäfer and his sons (Johannes, age 24; Heinrich, age 21; Johann Peter, age 15) are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr066.
The death of Johannes Schäfer in 1801 is recorded on the 1811 census of Norka in Household No. 66 along with a note that son Johannes relocated to the colony of Balzer in 1803 and son Johann Peter relocated to the colony of Krasnoyar in 1804 [sic].
Johann Peter Schäfer from Norka is recorded on the 1811 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 29 along with a note that he had arrived in Krasnoyar from Norka in 1802 [sic].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schäfer came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Schäfer came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1811 Krasnoyar Census (Household No. 29).
- 1811 Norka Census (Household No. 66).
- 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): Nr066.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 234.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3815.
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