Mattias Schmidt and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.
Mattias Schmidt and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Mattias Schmidt came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6868 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4231-4232, #4795-4796.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Mattias Schmidt and his wife Anna.
Source: Brent Mai.
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