Andreas Schneider and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Andreas Schneider and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Andreas Schneider, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 64.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Schneider came from the German village of Kaden [?] in the Darmstadt 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): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 866.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 1999): 209.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7041.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3845-3846.
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