Schmidt (Messer-9)
Spelling Variations:
Schmidt (Messer-9)
Шмидъ (Messer-9)
Discussion & Documentation:
Heinrich Schmidt, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Margaretha Katharina, and son Martin (age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 8. They had settled there on 7 July 1766.
Martin Schmidt from Messer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz26.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Schmidt came from the German region of Kurpfalz.
Sources:
- 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): Fz26.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 133.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai