Schmidt (Boisroux-3)

Spelling Variations:

Шмить (Boisroux-3)

Settled in the Following Colonies:

Pre-Volga Origin:

Discussion & Documentation:

Christian Schmidt from Langd & Eliesabetha Rohn from Ulff were married on 16 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 67.

The 1767 census records that Christian Schmidt came from the German village of Wenzlow.

Sources:

- 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): #542.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 156.

Contributor(s) to this page:

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies