Schmidt (Urbach-1)*

Gottfried Schmidt, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 31.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gottfried Schmidt was a blacksmith while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).

The 1767 census records that Gottfried Schmidt came from the German village of Merscheim in the region of Brandenburg.

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