Schmidt (Straub-3)
Christoph Schmidt, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 17; Christoph, age 15; Margaretha, age 11; Elisabeth, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.
The surviving children (Anna Maria, age 17; Christoph, age 16; Elisabeth, age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Straub in Household No. 1 where oldest daughter Anna Maria is married to Johann Heinrich Straub.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Schmidt came from the German region of Hanau.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 229.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #933.
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