Schaad / Schadt (Dietel)

David Schadt, son of Hans Daniel Schad & Eva Reichart, was born 2 March 1727 in Willstätt. David was married in Kork on 18 November 1749 to Anna Barbara Lupperger, daughter of Johannes Lupperger & Anna Barbara Steurer. She had been born in Kork on 3 November 1726.

David Schadt & Barbara Lupperger had 7 children, each born and baptized in Kork: (1) David, born 5 July 1750, baptized 7 July 1750; (2) Johann, born 27 November 1751, baptized 28 November 1751; (3) Michael, born 5 June 1754, baptized 8 June 1754; (4) Anna Barbara, born 8 May 1756, baptized 10 May 1756; (5) Elisabeth, born 5 October 1758, baptized 6 October 1758; (6) Maria, born 14 September 1761, baptized 15 September 1761; and (7) Margaretha, born 18 February 1764, baptized 20 February 1764, died 27 June 1764 (in Neumühl).

Michael Schaad, a stonemason, his wife Barbara, and children (David, age 17½; Johann, age 16; Barbara, age 12; Elisabeth, age 8; Maria, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 on a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Nikolai (St. Nicholas) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.

The parents did not survive the journey to the Volga region. Their orphaned children arrived in the colony of Dietel on 1 July 1767 and are living with other families from the Hanauerland region:

(1) David (age 18), a bread baker (Semmelbäcker), is recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 6 along with the Georg Hetzel family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Schaad and Hetzel families.

(2) Elisabeth (age 8) is recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 10 along with the Matthias Schmidt family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Schmidt and Schaad families.

(3) Johannes (age 17) is living in the household of Michael Heller.

(4) Barbara (age 13) is living in the household of Adam Jäger.

(5) Anna Maria (age 6) is living in the household of Michael Hoffmann.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that David Schadt came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that son David Schaad came from the German village of Kork in the Darmstadt region.

Some descendants of this family use the spelling of Schott.