Schmidt (Mariental-2)
Spelling Variations:
Schmidt (Mariental-2)
Шмидтъ (Mariental-2)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Michael Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Angela settled in the Volga German colony of Chasselois on 2 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 24 along with a note that they resettled to the colony of Mariental in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Michael Schmidt came from the German village of Saarburg in the Trier region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 256.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai