Schmidt (Krasnoyar-4)*
Spelling Variations:
Schmidt (Krasnoyar-4)*
Шмидтъ (Krasnoyar-4)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Peter Schmidt (age 5) along with his mother and stepfather (Johann Georg Gross) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Strelna under the command of Lieutenant Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 430.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4995.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai