Jeremias Schott, a needle maker (Nadelschied), his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 3; Markus, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann. A note records that son Markus died 13 June 1766.
Gottfried Jeremias Schott, a shopkeeper (Krämer), and his wife Anna Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 52. They had arrived in Stahl am Tarlyk on 13 September 1767. [Plehve's publication of the 1767 census records this surname as Scheidt.]
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Gottfried Jeremias Schott came from the German town of Lübeck.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Scheidt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 290.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 216.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2114.
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