Schmidt (Kamenka-1)
Spelling Variations:
Schmidt (Kameka-1)
Шмидтъ (Kamenka-1)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Widow Margaretha Schmidt, a farmer's wife, and her children (Johannes, age 18; Anna Maria, age 15; Gabriel, age 12) settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 6 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
The 1767 census records that Margaretha Schmidt came from the town of Saarlouis.
Sources:
- 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): Km014, Km038.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 221.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai