Peter Schlerich [sic], a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767. Peter, his new wife (Anna Katharina), and new-born son (Christoph, age 8 weeks) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.
Peter died and Anna Katharina remarried to Johannes Weingard in Kamenka. She died as well, and the children are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km067 along with a note that Johannes Schlert is working in Semenovka.
The death of Johannes Schlert in 1826 is recorded on the 1834 census of Semenovka in Household No. 102.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Schlert came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Urbach in the Schwarzburg region.
- 1834 Semenovka Census (Household No. 102).
- 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): 788.
- 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): Km067.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 180.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6302.
Brent Mai