Katharina [Peil] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen along with her daughter Susanna Maria and son-in-law Bernhard Schwab.
Bernhard Schwab, his wife [Sus]Anna Maria, and mother-in-law [first name not recorded] Peyl are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Katharina [Peil] (age 50) and her widower son-in-law Bernhard Schwab arrived in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767. They are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 34.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schwab family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 782.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6332.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8187-8188.
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