Schneider (Grimm / Müller / Stephan)
There are three Schneider families from the German village of Zell (today in Vogelsbergkreis) that migrated to the Volga German colonies. They all arrived in Oranienbaum together on the same ship, but their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johann Georg Schneider, son of Johann Heinrich & Maria Elisabetha Schneider, was baptized in Zell on 2 November 1732.
Johann Georg Schneider, a linen weaver (Leinweber) from the area of Darmstadt, & Anna Barbara Schmidt from Fulda were married on 17 July 1766 in Pastor Möllraht's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann [Georg] Schneider, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
Anna Barbara Schneider, widow of Johann Georg Schneider, and her children are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml34.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schneider came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Zell.
(2) Johann Heinrich Schneider, son of Georg Schneider from Heimertshausen, married in Zell on 27 June 1747 to Catharina Hofmann, daughter of Georg Hofmann from Zell.
The baptisms of the children born to Johann Heinrich Schneider & Catharina Hofmann in Zell are recorded in the parish register: (1) Anna Elisabetha, born 3 May 1748, baptized 5 May 1748; (2) Elisabetha, born 24 April 1750, baptized 26 April 1750, died 5 November 1753, buried 7 November 1753; (3) Johannes, born 21 September 1752, baptized 24 September 1752; (4) Johann Georg, born 19 June 1754, baptized 21 June 1754; (5) Johann Heinrich, born 3 February 1757, baptized 6 February 1757; (6) Johannes, born 20 October 1758, baptized 22 October 1758, died 22 November 1758, buried 24 November 1758); and (7) Maria Elisabetha, born 6 April 1760, baptized 8 April 1760.
Johann Heinrich Schneider died on 27 December 1761. His widow Catharina married on 10 February 1763 in Zell to Johann Heinrich Zulauf. [See Zulauf Family.]
Johann [Heinrich] Zulauf, a blacksmith, his wife Katharina, and [step-]children (Johannes [Schneider], age 18; Konrad [Schneider], age 14; Anna [Schneider], age 11; Maria [Schneider], age 7; Anna Maria [Schneider], age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Heinrich Zulauf and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 49 - but the children recorded there are of Heinrich's brother Johannes. The Schneider step-children have not been located on the 1767 census, but they appear again (along with the Zulauf family) on the 1775 census of Grimm.
Heinrich Zulauf, his [new] wife Maria Elisabeth, their son Johann Adam, and the Schneider step-children (Johannes, age 23; Heinrich, age 17; and Elisabeth, age 14) are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 125.
Johannes Schneider and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm072.
Heinrich Schneider from Grimm and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv41.
[Maria] Elisabeth Schneider is recorded on the 1798 census of Galka in Household No. Gk12 married to Johann Georg Ziegler.
(3) Johannes Schneider, son of Johann Conrad & Elisabetha Schneider, was born in Zell on 18 April 1716 and baptized there on 19 April 1716.
Anna Barbara Raab, daughter of Johannes & Maria Raab, was born in Zell on 3 February 1724 and baptized there on 4 February 1724.
Johannes Schneider & Anna Barbara Raab married on 11 October 1742 in Zell.
The baptisms of children born in Zell to Johannes Schneider & Anna Barbara Raab are recorded in the parish register of Zell: (1) Maria Elisabetha, born 26 November 1744, baptized 27 November 1744; (2) Johann Heinrich, born 15 January 1748, baptized 17 January 1748; (3) Maria Elisabeth, born & baptized 27 November 1750; (4) Johann Just, born 8 February 1753, baptized 10 February 1753, died 9 October 1753, buried 10 October 1753; (5) Johann Georg, born 19 October 1754, baptized 21 October 1754, died 6 December 1754, buried 9 December 1754; (6) Anna Elisabetha, born 15 January 1756, baptized 17 January 1756; (7) Elisabetha Dorothea, born 22 March 1759, baptized 24 March 1759, died 31 October 1761, buried 2 November 1761; (8) Johannes, born 9 February 1762, baptized 10 February 1762; and (9) Johann Georg, born 14 April 1764, baptized 16 April 1764.
Johann Schneider, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Maria Elisabeth, age 20; Johann, age 18; Maria, age 16½; Anna, age 10; Georg, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Johann Schneider, his wife Anna Barbara, and children (Maria Elisabeth, age 22; Johann Heinrich, age 19; Elisabeth, age 18; Anna Elisabeth, age 11; Anna Catrina, born in route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Johann and daughter Elisabeth (age 18) had died en route.
Widow Barbara Schneider and her children (Johann Heinrich, age 20; Anna Elisabeth, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stephan in Household No. 10. They had arrived there on 24 August 1767.
Son Johann Heinrich Schneider and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Stephan in Household No. Sp16. Daughter Anna Elisabeth Schneider is recorded on the 1798 census of Stephan in Household No. Sp31 as the wife of Johann Georg Schönhals.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schneider was a farmer from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Barbara Schneider's husband had been a tailor (Schneider) from the German village of Zell.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 125).
- 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): Gk12, Gm072, Ml34, Sp16, Sp31, Sv41.
- 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): #266.
- Parish register of Billertshausen (including Zell).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 79.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 178.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 223.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3628, #3646.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1965-1971.
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