The parish register of Frauenberg records that Georg Schwarz was a wandering beggar from Bergmatting. The registers of neighboring villages record the births of additional children with the same note - Mendici/vagabundi de Bergumathin [beggar/vagabond from Bergmatting].
The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Georg & Barbara Schwarz have been located: (1) Johannes Simon, born 22 August 1748 in Schaggenhofen; (2) Johannes Michael, born 26 April 1751 in Deuerling; and (3) Johannes Georg, born 9 March 1755 in Duggendorf, died 5 September 1756 in Duggendorf.
Johann Schwarz, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and son Jakob (age 10½) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov. Sebastian Schwarz, a farmer, and his wife Anna were also aboard this ship.
Sebastian Schwarz (age 23), a farmer, his wife Margaretha (age 24), stepson [perhaps rather a brother of Margaretha] Johann Adam [surname not recorded] (age 11), and father Georg (age 48) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.
The 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie records a couple of orphaned Schwartz children (Thomas, age 10, in Household No. Nk20; Wilhelm, age 4, in Household No. Nk21), and because Leitsinger was destroyed and many survivors resettled to Neu-Kolonie, it is presumed that they are descendants of Sebastian Schwartz.
Thomas Schwartz is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 18 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Seelmann in 1809.
Thomas Schwartz from Keller [sic] [which had been destroyed like Leitsinger] is recorded on the 1811 census of Seelmann in Household No. 31 along with a note that he had arrived in Seelmann from Keller in 1808. [The AHSGR publication of the 1811 census of Seelmann records his name as Michael in error - see image.]
Wilhelm Schwartz is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 19.
Wilhelm Schwartz and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 21.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schwarz came from the German region of Pfalz. It records that Sebastian Schwarz came from the German region of Regensburg. The 1767 census records that Sebastian Schwartz came from the German village of Fraunseck in the Pfalz-Neuburg region.
- 1811 Neu-Kolonie Census (Households No. 18, 19).
- 1811 Preuss Census (Household No. 31).
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 21).
- 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): 88.
- 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): Nk20, Nk21.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 67.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #353, #354.
Brent Mai
Anonymous2
Entry from the 1811 census of Seelmann recording the household of Thomas Schwartz and his relocation from Neu-Kolonie to Seelmann in 1808.
Source: Anonymous2.