Bartholomäus Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Johanna Christina, and [step-]children (Johann Konrad [Kimmel], age 13; Maria Elisabeth [Kimmel], age 10¼; Heinrich Christoph [Kimmel], age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard a ship named Кир Иоанн (Cyrus John) under the command of Midshipman Gavriil Poddubskii.
Bartholomeus Schmidt, his wife Johanna Christina, and [step-]children (Johann Conrad [Kimmel], age 15; Maria Elisabeth [Kimmel], age 10¼; Johann Heinrich [Kimmel], age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Bartholomeus Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Johanna Christina, and [step-]children (Johann Konrad [Kimmel], age 14; Maria Elisabeth [Kimmel], age 11; Johann Hienrich [Kimmel], age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 80. They had arrived in Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767. [See Kimmel Family.]
The 1767 census records that Bartholomäus Schmidt came from the German village of Lauterbach in the Riedesel region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
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