Andreas Schnurr, his wife Margaretha, and children (Johann, age 16; Christian, age 14; Margaretha, age 10¼; Benedict, age 6; Kunigunda, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 5 March 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 66.
In 1772, Andreas Schnurr and his family moved from Orlovskaya to Schönchen.
In 1788, Franz Schnurr moved from Schönchen to Wittmann. Johann Schnorr and his family is recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm44.
In 1790, widow Schnurr and her son Gottfried moved from Schönchen to Boisroux.
The death of Johannes Schnorr in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Wittmann in Household No. 65.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Schnurr was an innkeeper from the German region of Ansbach. The 1767 census records that he was a musician (Musiker) from the German village of Georgensgmünd.
[The surnames of Schnorr and Schnurr are often conflated among the records of the descendants of this family.]
- 1834 Wittmann Census (Household No. 65).
- 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): 56.
- 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): Bt42, Bx10, Sn09, Wm23, Wm44, Mv2124, Mv2608, Mv2617.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 325.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #95.
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