Widow Maria Schmidt, a farmer's wife, and her son Johann Wilhelm (age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard a ship named Кир Иоанн (Cyrus John) under the command of Midshipman Gavriil Poddubskii.
Widow Anna Maria Schmid and her son Johann Wilhelm (age 2½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Johann Wilhelm died en route.
It is not known in which colony the Widow Anna Maria Schmidt settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Maria Schmidt came from the German region of Riedesel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 699.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5579.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2256-2257.
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