Widow Julianna Schnell and her daughter Anna [sic] (age 3½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Widow Schnell married Philipp Wagner. Philipp Wagner, his wife Julianna, and stepdaughter Elisabeth Schnell (age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 27.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Julianna Schnell came from the German region of Braunfels.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schnell family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 60.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 338.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #127.
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