Lambert Schönebeck, a single pig farmer (Schweinehalter), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 182.
Lambert Schönebeck, a single "hole-caster" (Lochgiesser - as in a foundry worker who pours metal into a mold), is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 192 along with a note that he moved to Moscow.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinendstadt Land Register record that Lambert Schönebeck came from the town of Amsterdam in Holland [Netherlands].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 192).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 314.
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