Heinrich Schiel, a silk weaver (Seidenweber), his wife Eva, and children (Christina, age 12; Johann, age 9; Anna, age 7; David, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Heinrich Schiel, his wife Eva, and children (Christina, age 12; Johann, age 10; Anna, age 4; David, age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johann & David died in route.
Johann Heinrich Schick [sic], a cloth weaver (Tuchweber), his wife Eva, and daughters (Christina, age 11; Elisabeth, age 6; Louisa, age 4-days) are recorded on the list of Beauregard recruits that is appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Schiel came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Schick [sic] came from the German village of Suhl.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schiel family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 207.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 349.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1424.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4019-4023.
Brent Mai