Johannes Scherer married on 5 February 1743 in Bechtheim to Maria Sybilla Petri, daughter of Peter Petri.
Four children were born to Johannes Scherer & Maria Sybilla Petri: (1) Anna Elisabetha, born 4 November 1743 in Bechtheim; (2) Johannes Georg, born 11 May 1745 in Sulzheim; (3) Johannes, born 18 September 1747 in Sulzheim; and (4) Johannes Peter, born 15 September 1750 in Sulzheim.
Johannes Scherer (senior) died and the widow Maria Sybilla née Petri remarried first to Peter Iserloh and second to Johann Michael Schwartz. [See Iserloh and Schwartz Families.]
Michael Schwartz, a farmer, his wife Sibilla [née Petri], and [step-]sons (Johann [Scherer], age 19; Peter [Scherer], age 16¼; Karl [Iserloh], age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
(1) Anna Elisabeth Scherer married Hermann Müller.
Hermann Müller, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived in Oranienbaum. [See Müller Family.]
(2) Johannes Georg Scherer married on 10 April 1766 in Ockstadt to Maria Antoinette Pracht, daughter of Hermann & Anna Margaretha Pracht.
Johann Georg Scherer, a farmer, and his wife Antonette arrived in Oranienbaum.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Scherer came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Scherer came from the German village of Welshofen [Westhofen] in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Scherer family among the Volga German colonies.
(3) Johann Scherer (age 19) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johannes Scherer, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and his brother Peter (age 20) are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 34. They had arrived in Keller on 12 May 1767.
(4) Peter Scherer (age 16) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Peter Scherer (age 20) is recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 34 along with his brother Johannes Scherer and sister-in-law Anna Maria. They had arrived in Keller on 12 May 1767.
The 1767 census records that the Scherer family came from the German village of Westhofen in the Kurpfalz region.
- 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): 139, 140, 143.
- Parish register of Bechtheim.
- Parish register of Ockstadt.
- Parish register of Sulzheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 345, 348.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #837, #838, #870.
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