Johannes Schnärr, Zimmermann [carpenter], son of Johannes Schnärr (Gerichtsschöffe [lay judge] in Zeitlofs), married on 17 June 1746 in Zeitlofs to Anna Dorothea Beinmüller, daughter of Johannes Beinmüller (Gerichtsmann [court official] in Zeitlofs).
The births of the following children born to Johannes Schnärr & Anna Dorothea Beinmüller are recorded in the parish register of Zeitlofs: (1) Anna Sabine, born 26 June 1746, baptized 27 June 1746; (2) Anna Sabina, born 20 August 1747, baptized 21 August 1747; (3) Margaretha, born 3 October 1748, baptized 4 October 1748; (4) Anna, born 7 November 1749, baptized 9 November 1749; (5) Maria Magdalena, born 24 May 1751, baptized 25 May 1751; (6) Johannes, born & baptized 11 November 1753; (7) Hans Barthel, baptized 27 October 1755; (8) Michael, born 24 July 1759, baptized 25 July 1759; (9) Johann Caspar, born 5 December 1762, baptized 6 December 1762; and (10) Margaretha, born 21 April 1765, baptized 22 April 1765.
Johann Schnarr, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and children (Anna, age 19; Magdalena, age 16; Johann, age 13; Bartel, age 11; Michael, age 6; Kaspar, age 4; Margaretha, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
Both Johann and his wife Dorothea died after arrival in Russia. Daughter Anna married Johann Kraus.
Anna Kraus née Schnärr and her orphaned brothers Johann Schnärr (age 13) and Michael Schnärr (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 43. They had arrived in Stahl am Karaman on 22 June 1767.
Johannes Schnärr from Stahl am Karaman is recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh097.
In 1834, Jakob Schnärr moved from Dönhof to Schwed where he is recorded on the 1834 census in Household No. 12.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schnärr came from the German region of Dienheim.
- 1834 Schwed Census (Household No. 12).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 391.
- 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): Dh097, Sk26.
- Parish register of Zeitlofs.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 202.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3000.
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