Spelling Variations
Schmidt (Kamenka-3)
Шмидтъ (Kamenka-3)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Joseph Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Agnessa, and daughter Maria Ursula (age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kamenka in Household No. 50. They had arrived in Kamenka on 6 July 1765.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Schmidt came from the German village of Hassfurt.
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): Km043.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 228.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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