Schander

Johann Martin & Anna Ottilia Schander have five known children, two of them baptized in the Evangelical Church of Rimbach, 43 kilometers south of Darmstadt: (1) Anna Catharina, born 8 January 1756, died 4 April 1756; and (2) Anna Catharina (again) baptized on 1 January 1758.

Martin Schander, a farmer, his wife Ottilia, and children (Philipp, age 21; Tobias, age 19; Konrad, age 16; Anna, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the Russian port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity with skipper Thomas Fairfax at the helm.

Martin Schander, his wife Ottillia, and sons (Philip, age 21; Tobias, age 19; Conrad, age 17) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Martin Schander, his wife Otillia, and sons (Johann Tobias, age 20; Johann Konrad, age 18) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 28. Son Johann Philipp Schander and his [new] wife Eisabeth are recorded on this appendix in Household No. 29.

They resettled the following year to the colony of Basel where descendants are recorded on the 1798 Census in Households No. Bs01, Bs25, & Bs29.

The 1767 census records that father Martin is from the German village of Weilbach in the Hessen region while son Johann Philipp is from the German village of Wendebach in Hessen.