Johann Andreas Schreiber, son of Georg Caspar Schreiber & Agnes Glösser, was born on 2 November 1725 and baptized on 4 November 1725 in the Evangelical Church of Nieder-Florstadt, about 26 kilometers northeast of Frankfurt. He married Anna Maria Schreitz, daughter of Conrad Schreitz, on 8 January 1752 in the same church.
They had four known children, each baptized in Nieder-Florstadt: (1) Johann Heinrich, on 31 May 1753; (2) Maria Margaretha, on 14 November 1755; (3) Andreas, on 29 July 1758; and (4) Johann Conrad, on 18 December 1764.
Andreas Schreiber, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Heinrich, age 14; Andreas, age 8; Maria, age 8; Konrad, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
The Schreibers are recorded on the 1775 census of the Volga German colony of Schilling where widower Andreas is recorded in Household No. 65 along with 3 sons (Andreas, age 16; Konrad, age 10½; Adam Brosius [Ambrosius?], age 5½). Older son Heinrich is recorded in Household No. 31 along with his wife Maria Elisabeth and Zander stepchildren (Johann Michael, age 11½; Anna Maria, age 9; Katharina Margaretha, age 7; Anna Elisabeth, age 4).
The 1798 Census of Schilling records the family in Households No. Sg68, Sg32, and Sg89.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Schreiber came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Census of Schilling (Nos. 31 & 65).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 231.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Sg032, Sg068, Sg089.
- Parish register of Nieder-Florstadt (LDS Film No. 1200603).
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1638.
Corina Hirt