Philipp Schäfer, his wife Anna, and daughter Ursula (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
The parish register of Schilling records the birth of Johanna Helena Catharina Schäfer, daughter of Philipp Wilhelm Schäfer & Anna Maria Börger, on 11 May 1767 in Kolomna while en route to the colonies.
Philipp Wilhelm Schäfer, a soldier (Soldat), and his wife Marianna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 1.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Wilhelm Schäfer came from the German town of Stuttgart.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schäfer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 879.
- Parish register of Schilling.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 323.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7175.
Brent Mai
Habermann (Wolgadeutsche.net Forum)