Schmidt (Dietel-1)
Matthias Schmidt was married in Kork on 24 June 1761 to Barbara Wegel, daughter of Jacob Wegel & Barbara Lutz. She had been born in Kork on 13 December 1738.
Matthias and Barbara had 2 children, each born and baptized in Kork: (1) Johann Jacob, born 9 February 1763, baptized 11 February 1763, died 8 April 1763; and (2) Elisabeth, born 13 March 1764, baptized 14 March 1764.
Matthias Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and daughter Elisabeth (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 on a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Nikolai (St. Nicholas) under the command of Midshipman Thomas McKenzie.
Mattias Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Barbara are recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 10 along with Elisabeth Schadt (age 8), the orphaned daughter of David Schadt. They had arrived in Dietel on 1 July 1767.
Matthias Schmidt is recorded on the 1798 Census of Dietel in Household No. Dt47.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mattias Schmidt came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Kork near Darmstadt.
- 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): Dt47.
- Parish register of Kork (LDS Films No. 1189656, 1189657, 1189658, & 1189662).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 283.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2451.
Alan R. Wambold
Brent Mai