Johannes Schipper married on 26 April 1756 in Bodenheim to Katharina Mörling.
The parish register of Bodenheim records that baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Shipper & Katharina Mörling: (1) Johannes Konrad, baptized 13 December 1757, died 24 January 1758; (2) Anna Katharina, baptized 27 March 1760; and (3) Maria Margaretha, baptized 27 April 1764.
Johannes Schippert [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Katharina, age 6; Margaretha, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
Johannes Shippert [sic] (age 27), a farmer, his wife Katharina (age 36), daughter Katharina (age 8), and stepchildren (Agnesia Fell, age 18; Johann Adam Fell, age 12; Elisabeth Fell, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 27. They had arrived in Keller on 12 May 1767. [See Fell Family.]
Following the destruction of Keller, surviving members of the family resettled to the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
Johannes (junior) Schipper and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk42.
The death of Johannes (junior) Schipper in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 2.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Schippert [sic] came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johannes Schippert came from the German village of Bodenheim in the Kurmainz region.
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 2).
- 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): 146.
- 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): Nk42.
- Parish register of Bodenheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 347.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #892.
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