Schmidt (Grimm-5)*
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Schmidt (Grimm-5)*
Шмидтъ (Grimm-5)*
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Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Wilhelm Schmidt, a single carpenter (Tischler), is recorded on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 33.
The 1767 census records that Johann Wilhelm Schmidt came from the German village of Imkelburg in the Rüdesheim area.
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 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 77.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai