Schipper (Neu-Kolonie)
Johannes Schippert [sic], a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the hooker Anna Catharina under the Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.
Following the destruction of Keller, surviving members of the family resettled to the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
Johannes (junior) Schipper and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk42.
The death of Johannes (junior) Schipper in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 2.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Schippert came from the German village of Bodenheim in the Kurmainz region.
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 2).
- 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): Nk42.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 347.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #892.
Brent Mai