Metz (Schilling)

The data about this family come from three small villages: Orendelsall, Pfedelbach, and Windischenbach, very close each other, and about 26 kilometers east of Heilbronn, in Baden-Württemberg.      

Georg Michael Metz, son of Johann Peter & Anna Magdalena Metz, was baptized on 17 January 1731 in the Evangelical Church of Orendelsall. He married Maria Rosina Kohler, daughter of Heinrich Kohler, on 25 September 1753, but it is not clear if they married in Windischenbach or in Orendelsall.      

They had two known daughters, both baptized in Pfedelbach: (1) Maria Rosina Dorothea, baptized on 11 November 1754, and died on 4 December 1754; and (2) Eva Catharina, baptized on 24 August 1758.      

Georg Michael Metz and his family emigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) departing from Altona, Duchy of Holstein, on 29 June 1761 with a group under the leadership of Johann Thomas Gabler, and arriving in the city of Schleswig, Duchy of Schleswig, on 4 July 1761.

They remained there until about 1763, when they departed for Russia. They settled in the Volga German colony of Schilling and are recorded there on the 1775 census in Household No. 59.

Widow Rosina and descendants are recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Sg060. Johann Georg Metz and his son Georg Nikolaus are recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg037.

Georg Nikolaus Metz who is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Sg037 is recorded on the 1857 census of Grimm in Household No. 349.

Nikolaus Metz (born about 1810) from the 1857 census of Grimm (Household No. 349) is recorded on the 1857 census of Brunnental.

Mattias Metz from Schilling and his son Georg are recorded on the 1850 census of Galka in Household No. 214 along with a note that they have been "absent since 1839."