Johann Schaller, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughter Katharina (age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johannes Schaller, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Katharina Elisabeth (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 7. They had arrived in Leitsinger on 12 May 1767.
Widow Margaretha Sapper [sic] is recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk28.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schaller came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johannes Schaller came from the German village of Lauterburg in the Elsass region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 116-117.
- 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): Nk24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 64.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #636.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0220.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger lists recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Schaller and his family.
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Entry from the 1767 census of Leitsinger recording Johann Schaller and his family.
Source: Anonymous2.