Ulrich Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Saratov under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Ulrich Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife settled in the Volga German colony of Kautz on 20 July 1767. They are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.
Ulrich is recorded as a widower on the 1798 census in Kautz (Kz13).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ulrich Schmidt came from Switzerland. The 1767 census records that he came from the Swiss village of Schleitheim, just across the border from Baden-Württemberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 366.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kz13.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 335.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2768.
Brent Mai