There are two Schmidt families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Konrad Schmidt, his wife Anna, and daughters (Anna, age 10¼; Anna [again], age 5) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Konrad Schmidt, his wife Anna, and daughters (Anna, age 9; Anna [again], age 3) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
(2) Kaspar Schmidt and his wife Anna arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johann Kaspar Schmidt and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johann Kaspar Schmidt died en route.
It is not known in which colony/colonies these Schmidt families settled.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 854.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6935, #6937.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4294-4297, #4493-4494.
Brent Mai