Schindler (Norka)
The Büdingen marriage register records the marriage of Henrich Schindler from Wolffenhausen near Weilburg & Anna Eliesabetha Becker from Atzbach near Giesen on 15 May 1766.
Heinrich Schindler, a tailor, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Heinrich Schindler and his wife Anna Margaretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Schindler, a farmer, and his family, including his brother Jakob, settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 26 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 168.
The brother Jakob Schindler may be recorded arriving from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg. Other families that settled in Norka are recorded on this ship.
This Jakob Schindler is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with others who settled in Norka.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Heinrich Schindler came from the German region of Runkel.
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- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #652.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 274.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3767, #5155.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1939, 2388-2389.
Brent Mai