Two Schmidt families are presumed to be related because they traveled together and settled in the same colony. Their relationship, if any, needs further research.
(1) Theodor Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughter Barbara (age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Theodosios Schmidt, his wife Maria, and daughter Barbara (age 1) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.
The death of Theodor Schmidt (age 69) of Hölzel is recorded on 9 November 1808 in the parish register of Preuss.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Theodor Schmidt came from the German region of Solms. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Buchhorn [Wochern] in the Lothringen region.
(2) Nikolaus Schmid [sic] & Anna Margarethe Hirsch were married on 1 June 1766 in Roßlau.
Nikolaus Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Nicolaus Schmidt and his wife Margretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Schmidt came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Wochern in the Lothringen region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 855.
- 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): Hz06.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #994.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 114, 115.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6781, #6785 [also recorded on p. 442].
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7551-7555.
Brent Mai