Dorothea Schönfelder, a single woman, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Dorothea Schönfelter is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
She settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 7 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11 married to Christoph Neubauer (who was on the same ship arriving in Oranienbaum, and whose wife had died after arrival in Russia).
Dorothea Schönfelter is recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om03 along with her second husband, Nikolaus Bach from Mariental.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Dorothea Schönfelder came from the German region of Würzburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 200.
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