Johann Michael Schipper from Gochsheim [Gössenheim] & Margaretha Geiling from Rhein Münster were married on 7 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Johann Schippert [sic], a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
Michael Schipper, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman on 22 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40 along with his stepdaughters [surname Kiwel] (Christina, age 17; Christina [again], age 11; Margaretha, age 8; Dorothea, age 3). [See Kiwel Family.]
Christina Schuh née Schipper (age 44) from Stahl am Karaman and her husband are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm43.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schippert [sic] came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Michael Schipper came from the German region of Dienheim.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schipper family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 390.
- 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): Rm43.
- 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): #485.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 201.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2992.
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