Johann Schäfer, a farmer, his wife Maria, and sons (Andreas, age 21; Michael, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
Johannes Schäfer, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and sons (Andreas, age 22; Michael, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 34. They had settled there on 15 June 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johannes Schäfer came from the German region of Würzburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schäfer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 350.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 386.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2632.
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