Georg Ludwig Schmidt, a turner (Dreher), his wife Elisabeth and children (Philipp, age 7; Katharina, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Georg Ludwig Schmidt, a turner (Dreher), his wife Maria, and daughter Katharina Elisabeth (age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 152. They had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 17 August 1767.
Ludwig Schmidt, his wife Christina, and daughters (Katharina Elisabeth, age 11; Anna Christina, age 7) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 136.
The 1767 census records that Georg Ludwig Schmidt came from the German village of Westenburg in the Leiningen region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] also records that he came from the German village of Westenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 136).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 887.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 308.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7252.
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