Three Schicketantz families from Sprendlingen immigrated to Russia. They are distantly related to each other.
(1) Daniel Schicketantz, son of Johann Henrich Schickedanz & Elisabetha Jung, was born in Sprendlingen on 22 May 1744.
Daniel Schicketantz, a single carpenter (Zimmermann), arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Daniel Schicketantz was a carpenter while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Daniel Schicketantz came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Daniel Schicketantz came from the German village of Sprendlingen in the Isenburg region.
(2) Johann Ernst Schickedanz, son of Johannes Schickedanz & Anna Catharina Hartung, was born 9 June 1732 in Sprendlingen. He married 2 December 1760 in Sprendlingen to Susanne Eleonore Hochstadt, daughter of Johann Christian Hochstadt & Gertraude Schlapp. She had been born in Sprendlingen on 25 June 1732.
The baptisms of two children born to Johann Ernst Schickedanz & Susanne Eleonore Hochstadt are recorded in the parish register of Sprendlingen: (1) Dorothea, born 27 December 1761; and (2) Johann Marcus, born 26 July 1764.
Georg [sic] Schicketantz, a farmer, his wife Eleonora, and children (Dorothea, age 5; Johann Markus, age 2) arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Georg Schicketanz, his [new] wife Dorothea, and daughter Dorothea (age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony Georg Schicketanz and his family settled.
(3) Johann Georg Schickedanz, son of Johann Hans Georg Schickedanz & Eva Küster, was born 14 October 1724 in Sprendlingen. He married in Sprendlingen on 16 January 1755 to Anna Margaretha Heil, daughter of Johann Paul Heil & Catharina Bechtel. Anna Margaretha Heil had been born 16 May 1724 in Sprendlingen.
The baptisms of three children born to Johann Georg Schickedanz & Anna Margaretha Heil are recorded in the parish register of Sprendlingen: (1) Johann Georg, born 5 August 1755, died 7 April 1757; (2) Marie Catharina, born 27 June 1760; and (3) Anna Margaretha, born 21 July 1762, died 28 November 1762.
Johann [Georg] Schickedanz, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Maria (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detleff Mörenberg.
The only member of the family to survive the journey to the Volga colonies was daughter Maria Margaretha [sic] who is recorded on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 80 living with the widower Konrad Leonhardt and his children. [See Leonhardt Family.]
Katharina Schickedanz is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 155 along with Konrad Leonhard.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 155).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29, 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 102, 626, 713.
- Knöß, Heinrich & Ute Sehring. Familienbuch Sprendlingen [Schriften der Hessischen familiengeschichtlichen Vereinigung e.V. Nr. 53] (Dreieich: 2013): #1240, #1489, #4551, #4560, #4572, #4575.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Fk042.
- Parish register of Sprendlingen (LDS Film #1193263).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 422.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 84.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #506, #3026 [should be #5026], #5697.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7415-7417.
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