Gottlieb Schneider, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Anna Barbara, and daughter Elisabeth (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Müller in Household No. 33. They had settled there on 16 August 1767.
Johann Gottlieb Schneider and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml38 along with a note that they are living with their daughter in the colony of Kraft.
The 1767 census records that Gottlieb Schneider came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schneider 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): Ml38.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 183.
Brent Mai