Heinrich Schnell, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Valentin, age 5; Anna Katharina, age 4; Johann, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Heinrich Schnell, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth Heidgardt, and son Valentin (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 13. They had settled in Köhler on 21 August 1767.
Schnell siblings Elisabeth (age 30), Kaspar (age 24), and Johannes (age 19), presumed to be children of Heinrich Schnell, are recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl57 along with a note that Kaspar Schnell is working in Rothammel.
Kaspar Schnell is recorded on the 1834 census of Köhler in Household No. 188.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and 1767 census record that Heinrich Schnell came from the German region of Fulda.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schnell family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Köhler Census (Household No. 188).
- 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): 712.
- 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): Kl57.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 363.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5687.
Brent Mai