Joh. Ulrich Schiffler [sic] from Saalfeld & Anna Cornelia Schmidt from Hanau were married on 7 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Johann Ulrich Schiffner, a teacher (Lehrer), his wife Anna, his sister Johanna (age 19), and his mother-in-law Anna [surname not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 25 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
Johann Ulrich Schiffner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt083.
Erasmus Schiffner, son of Johann Ulrich Schiffner, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Walter in Households No. 136 & 168.
Christian Schiffner from Walter and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Hussenbach.
The 1767 census records that Johann Ulrich Schiffner came from the German village of Saalfeld in Sachsen (Saxony).
- 1834 Walter Census (Households No. 136, 168).
- 1857 Neu-Hussenbach Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 821.
- 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): Wt083.
- 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): #482.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 297.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6577.
Brent Mai