Johann Peter Schneidmüller and Anna Maria Steurnagel married on 11 July 1766 at Pastor Bruns's house in Lübeck.
Johann [Peter] Schneidmüller, a miller (Müller), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hussenbach. Peter Schneidmüller is recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Hs013.
The parish register of St. Jakob Lutheran Church in Lübeck records that both Johann Peter Schneidmüller and Anna Maria Steuernagel came from the German region of Hessen-Darmstadt. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schneidmüller came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 630.
- 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): Hs013, Hs014.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #255.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5060.
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