Valentin Schaab, son of Hans Schaab, was born 28 June 1680 in Mitgenfeld and died 11 March 1727 in Mittgenfeld. He married 16 April 1714 in Mittgenfeld to Catharina Beck, daughter of Johannes Beck.
Johannes Schaab, son of Valentin Schaab & Catharina Beck, was born 21 February 1727 in Mitgenfeld. He married 7 February 1747 to Margaretha Schneider. She had been born 15 August 1728.
The baptism of one son born to Johannes Schaab & Margaretha Schneider has been located in the parish register of Mitgenfeld: Stephanus, born 12 February 1750.
Margaretha Schaab née Schneider died 10 April 1754 in Mitgenfeld. Johannes Schaab remarried on 27 May 1754 to Elisabeth Hofstetter. She had been born in about 1731 in Schondra.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Schaab & Elisabeth Hofstetter have been located in the parish register of Mitgenfeld: (1) Elisabeth, born 4 May 1755; (2) Peter, born 7 September 1757, died 25 October 1757; (3) Anna Maria, born 14 April 1759; (4) Anna Maria, born 9 December 1761; (5) Catharina, born 30 January 1764; and (6) Johannes, born 17 March 1766.
Johannes Schaab, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Stephan, age 18; Elisabeth, age 12; Anna, age 7; Katharina, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Joh. Schapp [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Stephan, age 18; Mariana, age 5; Catharina, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Johannes and daughter Catharina died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767. Widow Elisabeth Schaab and the surviving children are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42.
The 1767 census records that Elisabeth Schaab came from the German village of Mitgenfeld in the Würzburg 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): 826.
- 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): Se03, Se24.
- Parish register of Mitgenfeld.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 188.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6612.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7444-7448.
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