Johann[es] Schilling, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Johann Georg, age 9; Christian, age 6½; Johann Heinrich, age 3½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.
Johannes Schilling, his wife Anna Margretha, and sons (Joh. Georg, age 10; Christian, age 7; Joh. Henrich, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach.
Brothers Johann Georg and Christian Schilling are recorded on thge 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs064.
The death of Johann Georg Schilling in 1808 is recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 64. He does not appear to have had any surviving male descendants.
The death of Christian Schilling in 1801 is recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 64.
Georg Schilling, son of Christian Schilling, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 246.
Johann Heinrich Schilling and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hussenbach in Household No. Hs131.
Heinrich Schilling and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 131.
The death of Heinrich Schilling in 1833 is recorded on the 1834 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 160.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schilling came from the German region of Riedesel.
- 1811 Hussenbach Census (Households No. 64, 131).
- 1834 Hussenbach Census (Households No. 160, 246).
- 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): Hs064, Hs131.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): 7089-7093.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6216.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8203-8207.
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