Christian Schmidt from Langd & Eliesabetha Rohn from Ulff were married on 16 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Christian Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.
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 Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Schmidt came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Christian Schmidt came from the German village of Wenzlow.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3900.
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