Schäfer (Nieder-Monjou-1)
Johann Schäfer and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 31.
Georg Schäfer, presumed to be the son of Johann Schäfer, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Nm56.
Adam Schäfer is recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 56 along with a note that he died there in 1804.
The sons of Adam Schäfer are recorded on the 1834 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 23.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schäfer was a miller while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
Both the Oranienbaum passenter list and the 1767 census record that Johann Schäfer came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1811 Nieder-Monjou Census (Household No. 56).
- 1834 Nieder-Monjou Census (Household No. 23).
- 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): Nm56.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 192.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4668.
Brent Mai