David Schneider, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and son Christian (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.
David Schneider, his wife Dorothea, and son Johann (age 7) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father David Schneider died en route.
It is not known in which colony the widow Dorothea Schneider and her son settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that David Schneider came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schneider family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5711.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7042-7044.
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