Michael Schneider, his [2nd] wife Maria Elisabeth Buch, and 6 [unnamed] children immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 9 June 1762. He swore allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 19 July 1762. He died in Denmark in 1762 or 1763.
The marriage of Franz Wilhelm Schneider, son of Michael Schneider, to Catharina Friederika Manweiler is recorded in the parish register of Översee on 29 June 1762. [See Manweiler Family.]
They were dismissed from the Danish colonies on 13 June 1763 and joined the migration to Russia.
Franz Schneider, a farmer, his wife Katharina Friederika, and daughters (Maria Barbara, age 5; Anna Maria, age 1½) are recorded there on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 2. They had arrived in Messer on 7 July 1766.
The parish register Översee [Denmark] and the 1767 census records that Franz Schneider came from the German village of Zweibrücken.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1494, B-1499.
- 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): Ms46.
- Parish register of Översee [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 131.
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner
Pre-Volga Origin
Volga Colonies
Immigration Locations
No results