Lorenz Schäfer, his wife Anna Katharina, and children (Johannes, age 4½; Mathias, age 2½; Anna, age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 42. They had arrived in Kamenka on 6 July 1765.
Lorenz Schäfer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johannes, age 11; Mattias, age 10; Anna Maria, age 9; Andreas, age 5½; Georg, age 2) are recorded on the 1775 census of Kamenka in Household No. 38.
In 1794, Johannes Schäfer and his family moved from Kamenka to Husaren.
Johannes Schäfer from Volmer [sic], his wife Barbara Dister, and son Peter (age 16) are recorded on the 1798 census of Husaren in Household No. Hn20.
Georg Schäfer [perhaps the same person as 16-year-old Peter in 1798] is recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 97 along with a note that his son Michael Schäfer moved from Volmer to Liechtling.
Michael Schäfer from Kamenka [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. 22.
The 1767 census records that Lorenz Schäfer came from the German region of Westfalen.
- 1775 Kamenka Census (Household No. 38).
- 1834 Leichtling Census (Household No. 22).
- 1834 Volmer Census (Household No. 97).
- 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): Hn20, Km046, Mv1115.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 226.
Brent Mai