Schmidt (Katharinenstadt-4)

Peter Schmidt, his wife Christina, and sons (Heinrich, age 17; Peter, age 11; Karl, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.

Peter Schmidt, his wife Christina, and sons (Heinrich, age 17; Peter, age 11; Carl, age 5) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Carl died en route.

Johann Peter Schmidt, a cook (Koch), his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 18; Peter, age 12) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 27.

Widower Peter Schmidt and his son Johann Peter are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka010.

Andreas Schmidt, son of Johann Peter Schmidt, is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 251 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Louis in 1822.

Andreas Schmidt is recorded on the 1834 census of Louis in Household No. 126 along with a note that he had arrived in Louis from Katharinenstadt in 1822, and that he had relocated to the colony of Rohleder in 1834.

Andreas Schmidt is recorded on the 1834 census of Rohleder in Household 80 along with a note that he had arrived in Rohleder from Louis in 1834.

Andreas Schmidt and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rohleder in Household No. 122 along with a note that his son Jakob had relocated back to the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1852.

Jakob Schmidt, son of Andreas Schmidt, and his family are recoded on the 1857 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 480 along with a note that they had arrived in Katharinenstadt from Rohleder in 1852. This Jakob Schmidt and his family immigrated to Catharine, Kansas, in 1876 where he was known as Schulemeister Jakob Schmidt.

Son Heinrich is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka131.

The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Schmidt came from the German village of Linthein [Lindheim? : Lindheim in Kr. Wetterau is not likely as it is historically a Lutheran village, and the Schmidt family was Roman Catholic].