Georg Schäfer, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha [Sauerbrei] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Balthasar Schäfer, his wife Margaretha, and their children (Johann Valentin, age 3¾; Eva Dorothea, age 1½) are recorded on the 1775 census of Schilling in Household No. 46.
The widow of Balthasar Schäfer and their children (Valentin, age 28; Georg Martin, age 21; Maria Christina, age 12) are recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg047.
Johann [sic] Martin Schäfer from Schilling and his sons (Georg Konrad, age 6; Johannes, age 3) are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 55.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Schäfer came from the German region of Erbach.
- 1775 Schilling Census (Household No. 46).
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 55).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 76.
- 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): Sg047.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #238.
Brent Mai