Anna [Margaretha] Schmidt, widow of Peter Schmidt, and their daughters (Anna [Maria], age 11; Maria [Elisabeth], age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Margaretha remarried Andreas Stellmann, and they settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna Schmidt came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 407.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 146.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3146.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Widow Anna Schmidt and her daughters.
Source: Brent Mai.