Johannes Scheidemantel [sic], son of Johannes Scheidemantel & Anna Martha Heintz, was born on 19 June 1739 in Rotensee and baptized 21 June 1739.
Johannes Scheidemantel [sic] married on 2 April 1765 in Unterhaun to Anna Margaretha Wölcker.
Anna Margaretha, daughter of Caspar Wölcker & Anna Elisabeth Klotzbach, was born 11 November 1728 in Rotensee and baptized 14 November 1728.
The baptism of a son born in Rotensee to Johannes Scheidemantel [sic] & Anna Margaretha Wölcker is recorded in the parish register of Unterhaun: (1) Niclaus, born 31 May 1765, baptized 2 June 1765.
Johannes Scheidemann, a farmer from Hessen, and his wife, Anna Margaretha, settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 84.
Johannes Scheidemann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr182.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 173).
- 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): Nr182.
- Parish register of Unterhaun.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 251.
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