Johann Schäfer, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
This Johann Schäfer is presumed to be the same person as the Georg Schäfer who settled in the colony of Kukkus because Johann was traveling with several other families who settled in Kukkus.
Georg Schäfer, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 26 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
In 1790, widow Anna Maria Schäfer and her family moved from Kukkus to Schilling.
The widow of Georg Schäfer from Kukkus and their son [Johann] Georg (age 12) are recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg089.
Johann Georg Schäfer from Schilling is recorded on the 1811 census of Kukkus in Household No. 54 along with a note that he had arrived in Kukkus from Schilling in 1810.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schäfer came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Georg Schäfer came from the German village of Löhnfeld in the Kurpfalz.
- 1811 Kukkus Census (Household No. 54).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 435.
- 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): Kk49, Sg089, Mv1442.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 467.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3388.
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