Johann Georg Schäfer, son of Johann Georg Schäfer & Maria Löffler, was born 31 May 1727 in Sprendlingen and baptized there on 2 June 1727.
Johann Georg Schäfer married in Sprendlingen on 27 January 1756 to Anna Margaretha Waag, daughter of Christian Waag & Elisabetha Kümpel. Anna Margaretha Waag had been born 30 April 1713 in Sprindlingen.
Johann Schäfer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Anna, age 6; Elisabeth, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Grimm and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 63.
Johannes [sic] Schäfer and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 138.
[The Sprendlingen Familienbuch records that Anna Margaretha Schäfer née Waag died 6 January 1784 in the German colony of Neu-Saratov which was located near St. Petersburg.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schäfer was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johannes Schäfer came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schäfer family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 138).
- Knöß, Heinrich & Ute Sehring. Familienbuch Sprendlingen [Schriften der Hessischen familiengeschichtlichen Vereinigung e.V. Nr. 53] (Dreieich: 2013): #3911, #3951, #6124.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 81.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5024.
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