Scheller
The birth of a daughter to Johann & Gertrude Scheller is recorded in the parish register of Nieder-Seemen: Amalia, born 13 November 1726, baptized 15 November 1726.
Gertrude died and widower Johann Scheller married in Nieder-Seeman on 13 October 1729 to Anna Maria Groth, daughter of Peter Groth from Mittel-Seemen.
Among the children born to Johann Scheller & Anna Maria Groth whose baptisms are recorded in the parish register of Nieder-Seeman are: (1) Anna Margaretha, born 22 September 1737, baptized 24 September 1737; (2) Johannes, born 21 September 1740, baptized 22 September 1740; and (3) Johann Conrad, born 21 July 1750, baptized 22 July 1750.
Three children of Johann Scheller married before departing for Russia.
(1) Amalia Scheller married in Nieder-Seemen to Andreas Müller, son of Johann Heinrich Müller. [See Müller Family.]
(2) [Anna] Margaretha Scheller from Nieder-Seemen & Peter Schott from Kirchbracht were married in the Lutheran Church in Büdingen on 9 April 1766. [See Schott Family.]
(3) Johan[nes] Scheller, a cobbler (Schuster) from the area of Stollberg, and Anna Elisabeth Berget from the area of Stollberg, were married on 21 May 1766 in Pastor Peterssen's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann[es] Scheller, a farmer, his wife Anna, and his brother [Johann] Konrad (age 17) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat under the command of Midshipman Mankensey along with Peter Schott & Anna Margaretha née Scheller.
The Scheller brothers settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 59.
Peter and Anna Margaretha née Scheller Schott settled in the colony of Moor and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 44.
Johannes Scheller and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Dönhof in Household No. 58.
Johannes Scheller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh081.
Johann Konrad Scheller and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Dönhof in Household No. 76.
Conrad Scheller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh076.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johannes Scheller came from the German region of Stolberg.
- 1775 Dönhof Census (Households No. 58, 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): Dh076, Dh081.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #225, #505.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Nieder-Seeman.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 356.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 167.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1199, #1200.
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