Nikolaus Scheidt, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and daughter Anna (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Rosenheim on 27 July 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 59.
Nikolaus Scheidt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm38.
The sons of Nikolaus Scheidt are recorded on the 1834 census of Rosenheim in Households No. 48 & 50.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Nikolaus Scheidt came from the German region of Dienheim.
- 1834 Rosenheim Census (Households No. 48, 50).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 391.
- 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): Rm38.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 76.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2997.
Brent Mai