Johann Scharman [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 8; Konrad, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Johann Charmant [sic] and his daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the father Johann died en route.
Anna Elisabeth Scheuermann (age 8) is recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 166 with the family of Ludwig Batt. No relationship between the Scheuermann and Batt families is recorded on the 1767 census.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Scharman [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Scheuermann family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 484.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 274.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3788.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1936-1937.
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