Heinrich Lebrecht Schönefeld, a joiner (Tischler), his wife Johanna Charlotta, and children (Maria Magdalena, age 6; Katharina Elisabeth, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
Heinrich Schönefeld, a joiner (Tischler), his wife Johanna Charlotta, and children (Maria Magdalena, age 7; Johann Christoph, age 3-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Jost in Household No. 51. They had settled in Jost on 16 August 1767.
Christoph Schönefeld and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo27.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Lebrecht Schönfeld came from the German region of Prussia while the 1767 census records that he came from the town of Magdeburg.
- 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): Jo27.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 207.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3266.
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