Spelling Variations
Schönebeck (Biberstein)*
Шенебекъ (Biberstein)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Peter Schönebeck, a weaver (Weber), and his wife Engel are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 3 along with a note that they relocated to the village of Biberstein in 1768.
Also recorded with them on the 1767 census is the orphan Anna Katharina Heider (age 12). A relationship between the Schönebeck and Heider family is not recorded.
The 1767 census records that Peter Schönebeck came from the German village of Nasnitz [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schönebeck family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 324.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai