Schmidt (Messer-7)*
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Schmidt (Messer-7)*
Шмидъ (Messer-7)*
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Discussion & Documentation:
Orphan Anna Margaretha Schmidt (age 14), daughter of the deceased Christoph Schmidt, is recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 79.
The 1767 census records that Anna Margaretha Schmidt came from the German region of Isenburg.
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 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 150.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai