Os(t)wald / Os(t)walt (Seelmann)*
Christoph Oswald, a single baker (Bäcker), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Die Neue Freiheit von Bremen under the command of Skipper Steingrawer.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on15 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.
Christoph Oswald, his wife, and daughter are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm41.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Oswald came from the German village of Waldenhausen in the Würzburg district.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Oswald family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sm41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 153.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1950.
Brent Mai