Paul [sic] Schleicher, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and children (Johann, age 2½; Dorothea, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Carl Schleicher, his wife Barbara, and children (Johannes, age 3; Dorothea, age 1) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both parents and daughter Dorothea died in route.
It is not known in which colony the surviving son settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Paul [sic] Schleicher came from the German village of Gersfeld.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schleicher family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 805.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6442.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7389-7392.
Brent Mai