The following children born to were Andreas & Elisabetha Schellhorn of Trabelsdorf: (1) Johannes Karl, born about 1729; and (2) Ursula, born about 1739, died 1 January 1764.
Johannes Karl Schellhorn, son of Andreas & Elisabeth Schellhorn of Trabelsdorf, married on 12 January 1756 in Burgebrach to the widow Margaretha Gröner née Bähr, daughter of Benedikt Bähr & Kunigunda Eichfelder.
[Benedikt Bähr of Harnsbach had married on 20 June 1715 in Burgebrach to Kunigunda Eichfelder, daughter of Michael Eichfelder (1664 - 14 November 1729) & Katharina Wagner of Unterharnsbach (27 November 1663 - 4 March 1696).]
[The baptisms of the following children born to Benedikt Bähr & Katharina Wagner of Unterharnsbach are recorded in the parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Burgebrach: (1) Heinrich, baptized 1 September 1717; (2) Johannes, baptized 21 March 1720; and (3) Margaretha, baptized 27 November 1722.]
[Margaretha Bähr had been previously married on 29 April 1750 to Johannes Georg Gröner.]
The baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Karl Schellhorn & Margaretha Bähr of Stappenbach are recorded in the parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Burgebrach: (1) Johannes Georg, baptized 31 October 1756, and (2) Johannes, baptized 10 September 1759.
Margaretha Gröner Schellhorn née Bähr died 23 January 1765.
Widower Johann Schellhorn, a tailor (Schneider), and his sons (Johann Georg, age 12; Johann, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Johann Adam Schelhorn [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Karl Schellhorn (age 38), a tailor (Schneider), his [new] wife Anna Maria (age 24), and the sons by his first wife (Johann Georg, age 11; Johannes, 7) are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 21. They had arrived in Seelmann on 15 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schellhorn came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Karl Schellhorn came from the German village of Rabelsdorf in the Bamberg region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 270.
- 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): Sm18, Sm49.
- Parish register of St. Bartholomäus in Priesendorf.
- Parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Burgebrach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 153.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1957.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1535.
Brent Mai
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Entry in the parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Burgebrach recording the baptism of Johannes Georg Schellhorn on 31 October 1756.
Source: Anonymous2.
Entry in the parish register of St. Vitus Catholic Church in Burgebrach recording the baptism of Johannes Schellhorn on 10 September 1759.
Source: Anonymous2.