Leonhardt Schumm, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Georg, age 6; Katharina, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Leonhard Schum [sic], his wife Anna Margreth., and children (Georg, age 5; Catrina [born en route]) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Georg died en route.
Leonhardt Schumm, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 17. He is recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz10.
The death of Leonhard Schumm at the age of 73 is recorded on 17 July 1802 in the parish register of Luzern.
The 1767 census records that Leonhardt Schumm came from the German region of Kassel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Lz10.
- Parish register of Luzern.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 165.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4621.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5901-5904.
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