Spelling Variations
Schmidt (Brabander-6)*
Шмитъ (Brabander-6)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Christoph Schmidt, weaver (Weber), and his wife Maria Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 11 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 94.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Schmidt came from the German village of Oberdiebach in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 234.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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