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Schmidt (Unknown-3)*

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Schmidt (Unknown-3)*
Шмидтъ (Unknown-3)*
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Peter Schmidt, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Elisabeth (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hans Karholm.

Peter Schmidt and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Peter Schmidt, a farmer, and his wife, Elisabeth, arrived in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 34.

It is not known in which colony they settled.

The 1767 census records that Peter Schmidt came from the German village of Lichbach? in Hessen.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Schmidt family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 212.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7039.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3841-3842.

 
Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

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