Johann Schneider, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 16¼; Peter, age 13; Heinrich, age 8; Mattias, age 7; Jakob, age 5) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
Johannes Schneider (age 34), a farmer, his wife Margaretha (age 36), children (Johann Heinrich, age 8; Johann Valentin, age 1), and stepchildren (Anna Margaretha [Kohler], age 18; Johann Peter [Kohler], age 15; Johann Jakob [Kohler], age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Degott in Household No. 13. They had arrived in Degott on 18 July 1766.
Jakob Kohler (age 35) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Degott in Household No. Dg07.
Jakob Kohler and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Degott in Household No. 7.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schneider came from the German region of the Pfalz.
- 1834 Degott Census (Households No. 7, 10).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 95.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 265.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #433.
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