Johann Schneider, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 16¼; Peter, age 13; Heinrich, age 8; Mattias, age 7; Jakob, age 5) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
Johannes Schneider (age 34), a farmer, his wife Margaretha (age 36), children (Johann Heinrich, age 8; Johann Valentin, age 1), and stepchildren (Anna Margaretha [Kohler], age 18; Johann Peter [Kohler], age 15; Johann Jakob [Kohler], age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Degott in Household No. 13. They had arrived in Degott on 18 July 1766. [See Kohler Family.]
In 1789, Friedrich Schneider, presumed son of Johannes Schneider, moved from Degott to Rothammel.
Friedrich Schneider (age 29) from Degott and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rothammel in Household No. Rt08.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schneider came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Johannes Schneider came from the German village of Kaiserslautern in the Kurpfalz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 95.
- 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): Rt08, Mv0367.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 265.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #433.
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