Schneider (Ober-Monjou-1)
Georg Schneider, his wife Dorothea, and children (Joseph, age 17¼; Sebastian, age 7; Georg, age 4; Eva, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.
Georg Schneider, his wife Dorothea, and children (Joseph, age 17¼; Georg, age 5; Sebastian, age 4; Eva Maria, age 1½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. They are traveling with Anna Maria Schneider (age 19) who is probably a sister of Georg Schneider.
Georg Schneider, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and children (Joseph, age 17; Sebastian, age 8; Georg, age 5; Anna, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 39. They had settled there on 3 August 1767.
Georg Schneider (the father) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om39.
The widow and children of Joseph Schneider are recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om06.
The 1767 census records that Georg Schneider came from the German village of Leidendorf.
- 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): Om06, Om39.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6728, #6729 [not recorded on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 298.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4646-4651.
Brent Mai