Johann Michael Schneider, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Maria Magdalena, age 9; Johann Philipp, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Schwab on 12 September 1767. Johann Michael Schneider is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 27 along with [new] wife Elisabeth (age 20) and two children (Anna Maria, age 11; Johann Michael, age 9). These two children, whose surname is not recorded, do not appear to be either his or his new wife's (as she is too young). They are the surviving children of Georg Heinrich Lust. [See Lust Family.]
The 1767 census records that Johann Michael Schneider came from the German village of Krumbach in the Erbach region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schneider family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 654.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 133.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5255 (p.333).
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