There are two Schmidt families from the German village of Romrod that settled in the colony of Paulskaya. They arrived together from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier. They are recorded together on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
(1) Just Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Dorothea, age 13; Katharina, age 9) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Joh. Jost Schmied [sic], his wife Anna Catharina, and daughters (Dorothea, age 13; Catharina, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna Catharina died en route.
Johann Just Schmidt, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Katharina, and daughters (Dorothea, age 13; Katharina, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 8. They had settled there on the 3 August 1767.
Johannes Schmidt from Paulskaya is recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household No. Kd06.
The 1767 census records that Johann Just Schmidt came from the German village of Romrod.
(2) Wiegand [sic] Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and daughter Anna (age 1) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Wigard Schmied [sic], his wife Eleonora, and daughter Katharina (age 2) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Weigand Schmidt, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife, Eleonora, settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 83.
In 1785, widower Weigand Schmidt and his sons moved from Paulskaya to Boisroux.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Weigand came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Weigand Schmidt is from the German village of Romrod in the district of Darmstadt.
- 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): Bx04, Kd06, Pl62, Mv2201.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 203, 333.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4674, #4675.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2829-2832.
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