Schneider (Kratzke-1)

Spelling Variations:

Шнейдеръ (Kratzke-1)

Settled in the Following Colonies:

Kratzke

Ährenfeld

Pre-Volga Origin:

Salzwedel, Kr. Salzwedel, Sachsen-Anhalt

Discussion & Documentation:

Nikolaus Schneider, a fabric weaver (Stoffweber), his wife Maria Katharina, son Johann Friedrich (age ½), and stepson Johann Heinrich [surname not recorded] (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kratzke in Household No. 6. They had settled there on 7 August 1766.

The 1767 Kratzke census records that this Schneider family is from Salzwedel in Brandenburg.

Sources:

- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kr35.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 20001): 45.

Contributor(s) to this page:

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies