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Schmidt (Katharinenstadt-4)

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Schmidt (Katharinenstadt-4)
Шмидъ (Katharinenstadt-4)
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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 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.

Peter Schmidt, his wife Christina, and sons (Heinrich, age 17¼; Peter, age 11; Carl, age 5¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Carl died in route.

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

[a] Heinrich Schmidt and his wife Maria Theresia née Schröder are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 46 along with a note that son Johann Michael was born 14 March 1777.

Heinrich Schmidt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka131.

[b] Johann Peter Schmidt, his wife Anna Christiana née Kailis, and son Johann Peter (age 20) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 10.

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.

The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Schmidt came from the German village of Linthein [Lindheim]. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johann Peter Schmidt came from Lindheim Reichsstadt [?] and that his wife Anna Christiana née Kailis came from Nieder-Mockstadt which is a few kilometers southeast of Lindheim in the Wetterau Kreis. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Heinrich Schmidt came from the village of Isenburg Badinger [?] and that his wife came from the village of Jesseitz in the region of Anhalt-Dessau.

Sources

- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 10).
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 251).
- 1834 Louis Census (Household No. 126).
- 1834 Rohleder Census (Household No. 80).
- 1857 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 480).
- 1857 Rohleder Census (Household No. 122).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 869.
- 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): Ka010, Ka131.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 210.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7077.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4547-4551.

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