Schmidt (Pobochnaya)*

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.