Schmidt (Susannental-3)
Johann Peter Schmidt was baptized 11 December 1708 in Hoch-Weisel. He married in Hoch-Weisel on 11 November 1734 to Anna Maria Gross. This Schmidt family lived at Butzbacher Straße 5 in Hoch-Weisel.
The fourth child of Johann Peter Schmidt & Anna Maria Gross was Christian who was baptized 17 February 1746 in Hoch-Weisel.
Christian Schmidt & Anna Elisabeth Becker were married on 21 May 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.
Christian Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson along with Elisabeth's parents and siblings. [See Becker Family of Susannental.]
Christian Schmidt and his wife Anna Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with her parents and siblings.
Christian Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Susannental on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
In 1794, widow Katharina Elisabeth Rittger née Becker married Johannes Eifert in Meinhard and took her son from her first husband, Christian Schmidt, Johannes Heinrich Schmidt with her.
Johann Heinrich Schmidt from Susannental is recorded on the 1798 census of Meinhard in Household No. Mn03.
Johann Heinrich Schmidt and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Meinhard in Household No. 7.
The 1767 census records that Christian Schmidt came from the German village of Hoch-Weisel in the Darmstadt region.
- 1834 Meinhard Census (Household No. 7).
- 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): Mn03, Mv2883.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #157.
- Parish register of Butzbach (including Hoch-Weisel).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 264.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3900.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5175-5181.
Brent Mai
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