An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following:
Johann Michael Schrödter/Schröter, a day laborer (Tagelöhner) from Jesznitz, with his wife and 2 children, who made his living with his cart of hops (Hopfenkarren) and by selling porcelain (Porzellanhandel). His property on the Sandanger was sold for 20 Thaler from which 19 Thaler went for the payment of his debts. Schrödter/Schröter was born in Jeßnitz and had served in the Saxon army.
Michael Schröder, a merchant (Kaufmann), his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 9; Johann, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Mich. Schroeder, his wife Anna Rosina, and children (Maria Theresia, age 9; Joh. Michael, 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 Katharinenstadt on 7 June 1767. They are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 42 where is wife is recorded as Anna Rosina Fischer.
Johann Michael Schröder (age 40), a merchant (Kaufmann), his wife Anna Maria Theresia née Fischer (age 40), and children (Johann Michael, age 13; Johann Martin, age 7; Maria Louisa, age 5) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 46 along with a note that they have been on leave [beurlaubt] in Kazan since 1775.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Schröder came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that Johann Michael Schröder came from the German village of Jesseitz [Jeßnitz?] in the Dessau-Anhalt region. The 1767 census records that Anna Rosina Fischer came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johann Michael Schröder came from the German village of Jesseitz [Jeßnitz?] in the Dessau-Anhalt region and that his wife came from the German village of Glausse in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schröder family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 46).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 223.
- 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): #1153.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 285.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1575.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1075-1078.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 83.
Brent Mai