Schäfer (Nieder-Monjou-2)
Johann Schäfer, a miner, his wife Maria, and children (Martin, age 12; Anna, age 9; Maria, age 5, Maria, age 2½; Johann, age ¾) that arrived from Lübek at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Georg Schäfer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Johann Martin, age 12; Cecilia Anna, age 8) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Martin Schäfer (age 15) and his sister Zizilia (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 59 along with their stepfather Christian Bisterfeld. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
The 1798 census of Zürich records Martin Schäfer from Nieder-Monjou in Household No. Zr36.
The death of Martin Schäfer in 1821 is recorded on the 1834 census of Zürich in Household No. 69.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schäfer came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census does not record from where the Schäfer children came.
- 1834 Zürich Census (Household No. 69).
- 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): Zr36.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 198.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5436.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6840-6843.
Brent Mai