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Schick (Galka)

Johann Ludwig Schick was baptized on 26 July 1711 in Neckarbischofsheim, southeast of Heidelberg. His parents were Hans Jakob Schick & Anna Katharina Seyffert. He married Katharina Margaretha (surname unknown) who had been born in 1726.

Schenk (Dobrinka)

Johann Conrad Schenck, son of Johann Just Schenck & Anna Elisabeth Kalb, was born on 16 July 1742 in Billertshausen.

Konrad Schenk, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Sipper Thomas Fairfax.

He immigrated to Russia, arriving at the port in Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766. Once in Russia, he married Anna Margaretha Barbara Eich, daughter of Sebastian Eich & Sophia Philippina Ramge, who had been on the same ship from Germany to Russia.

Scheidt (Balzer / Moor)

There are several Scheidt families who immigrated from Düdelsheim to the Volga German colonies in Russia. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johann Heinrich, son of Johann Henrich Scheid & Susanna Kneip, was born in Düdelsheim on 17 January 1740. He married there on 24 September 1761 to Anna Margaretha Hohenstein, daughter of Johannes Hohenstein. She had been born in Düdelsheim on 19 August 1745.

Schaufler

Johann Ulrich Schaufler, son of Andreas Schaufler, was born about 1730/1731 in Grossgartach, a town 7 kilometers west of Heilbronn [in 1970, Grossgartach was administratively merged with the nearby village of Schluchtern to form the town of Leingarten]. He married on 13 January 1756 to Justina Krebs, daughter of Johannes & Johanna Krebs, in the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in Ehrstädt, northwest of Grossgartach.

Scharf (Nieder-Monjou)

Johann Martin Scharf was born in Biskirchen, west of Giessen, on 15 October 1741, the eldest child of Christian Scharf (born 18 March 1708 in Biskirchen) and Anna Sophia Keyser (born 1717 in Biskirchen). Johann Martin married the widow Catharina Haardt on 15 December 1765. She had a four-year-old daughter named Katharina by the previous marriage to the Haardt.

Martin Scharf, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and [step-]daughter Katharina [Hardt] (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliott Anna Catharina.

Schanzenbach

Johann Georg Schanzenbach, son of Georg Michael & Anna Elisabeth Schanzenbach, was born and baptized on 18 August 1725 in Waldbach, a small village near Heilbronn. He married to Maria Katharina Braun, daughter of Michael Braun, on 6 July 1751 in the Lutheran Church in the neighboring village of Ellhofen.

They had three children, each baptized in Ellhofen: (1) Georg David (born 17 May 1752; baptized 19 May 1752); (2) Johann Michael (baptized 19 April 1755); and (3) Georg Simon (baptized 27 October 1759).

Schander

Johann Martin & Anna Ottilia Schander have five known children, two of them baptized in the Evangelical Church of Rimbach, 43 kilometers south of Darmstadt: (1) Anna Catharina, born 8 January 1756, died 4 April 1756; and (2) Anna Catharina (again) baptized on 1 January 1758.

Martin Schander, a farmer, his wife Ottilia, and children (Philipp, age 21; Tobias, age 19; Konrad, age 16; Anna, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the Russian port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity with skipper Thomas Fairfax at the helm.

Schäfer (Frank-2)

Johann Heinrich Schäfer, son of Johann Peter Schäfer, and Catharina Neeb, daughter of Johannes Neeb, were married in Kestrich on 25 July 1726.  Among their children born in Kestrich is Johann Martin Schäfer, born 6 January 1746, baptized 9 January 1746.

Johann Martin Schäfer married in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen on 24 February 1766 to Anna Margaretha Diehl (Tiehll/Thiel) from the village of Höchst, Wetterau.