Adam Schreiner, a miller, 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. He was traveling with Nikolaus Daubert and his wife Katharina Elisabeth, identified on later documents as his uncle and aunt.
Nicolaus Daubert, his wife Catharina Elisabeth, and [nephew] Johann Adam [Schreiner] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Adam Schreiner [mis-published as Schneider on the 1767 census], age 24, settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9 along with his uncle, Nikolaus Daubert.
Adam Schreiner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp21.
Adam Schreiner and Johannes Schneider from Yagodnaya Polyana and their families are recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Schreiner came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1857 Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana Census.
- 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): 781.
- 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): Yp21.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 175.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6249.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8032.
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