Johannes Schaaf, son of Anton Schaaf, married on 28 October 1755 in Villmar to Anna Margaretha Decker née Flach, widow of Konrad Decker.
The parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Villmar records the baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Schaaf & Anna Margaretha Flach: (1) Simon, baptized 15 March 1756; (2) Johannes Georg, baptized 7 November 1758; and (3) Johannes, baptized 1 August 1761.
Johannes Schaaf, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and sons (Heinrich, age 20; Simon, age 12; Johann Georg, age 8; Hans, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
It appears that the entire family except for Johannes died after arrival in Russia. Johannes remarried to the widow Katharina Brehm who had arrived in Oranienbaum on the same ship.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 59 along with the surviving Brehm children.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Schaaf came from the German village of Villmar in the Kurtrier region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schaaf family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 137.
- Parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Villmar.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 354.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #817.
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Entry from the parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church recording the marriage of Johannes Schaaf & Margaretha Flach on 18 October 1755.
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Entry from the parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church recording the baptism of Simon Schaaf on 15 March 1756.
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