Johann Heinrich Schmidt, a musketeer from Meerholz, and Anna Catharina Semmel were married in Neuenhaßlau on 29 March 1764.
Anna Catharina Semmel, daughter of Johann Georg Semmel & Anna Catharina Müller, had been born 28 April 1738 and baptized 4 May 1738 in Neuenhaßlau.
The birth and baptism of one child to Johann Heinrich Schmidt & Anna Catharina Semmel is recorded in the parish register of Neuenhaßlau: Anna Catharina, born 28 January 1766, baptized 2 February 1766.
Johann Heinrich Schmidt, his wife Anna Katharina Simmel, and daughter Anna Katharina (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.
They are recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 12).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1773 Pobochnaya Census (No. 12).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojekts von Katharina II. 1763-1775 (Moscow: Andreas Idt, Georg Rauschenbach, 2021): 391, 407.
- Parish register of Neuenhaßlau.
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