There are several Schneider families from the German village of Düdelsheim that settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer. Their relationship to each other, if any, requires further research.
(1) Johann Conrad Schneider, son of Johannes Schneider, was baptized 9 April 1741 in Düdelsheim.
The marriage of Conrad Schneider & Anna Margaretha Triller is recorded in the parish register of the Lutheran Church in Büdingen.
Konrad Schneider, a farmer, his wife Anna, and his mother[-in-law] Anna [Triller] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
Konrad settled in the Volga German colony of Balzer on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 76 along with his wife Anna Barbara [sic] and her mother Margaretha Triller.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Konrad Schneider came from the German region of Isenburg.
(2) Johann Heinrich Schneider, son of Johann Peter & Gertraut Schneider, was baptized 24 June 1736 in Düdelsheim. He married there on 4 December 1760 to Anna Catharina Rühl, daughter of Caspar & Barbara Catharina Rühl. Anna Catharina had been baptized in Düdelsheim on 16 October 1738.
Johann Heinrich Schneider, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 June 1766 aboard a boat named Северный Орел (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Peter Malenkov.
They arrived in Balzer on 18 June 1767 and are listed there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 51.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Heinrich Schneider came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Bonner, Wayne H. Volga German Settlers Identified in Isenburg and Other German Church Records Part I (Gardena, CA: Wayne Bonner, 2007): 26.
- Decker, Klaus-Peter, Büdingen als Sammelplatz der Auswanderung an die Wolga 1766 (Büdingen: Geschichtswerkstatt Büdingen, 2009): 87.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30, 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 184, 393.
- 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): Bz003, Bz019, Bz034, Bz076.
- 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): #494.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Düdelsheim (LDS Intl Film #1201789).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 86, 94.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1218, #3012.
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