Johann Schneider [sic], a weaver (Weber), and his wife [Joh]Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Joh. Schröder and his wife Johanna Rosina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Andreas Schröder, a weaver (Weber), and his wife Johanna settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 74.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schneider [sic] came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Andreas Schröder came from the German village of Gening [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schröder family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4320.
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