Nikolaus Schreiner, his wife Maria Magdalena, and children (Maria, age 9; Johann [Paul], age 6; Johanna, age 4½; Franz, age 3-days) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a ship named Der Ringende Jacob (The Wrestling Jacob) under the command of Skipper Johann Heitmann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30.
Widower Nikolaus Schreiner and his son Georg Adam Schreiner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm11.
Paulus Schreiner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm38.
The death of Paul Schreiner (age 48) of Seelmann is recorded in September 1807 [exact date illegible] in the parish register of Preuss.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Schreiner was a merchant from the German village of Salmünster. The 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the German village of Soda [Soden?].
[The marriage of a Nicolaus Schreiner from Altglashütten near Motten is recorded on the parish register of Salmünster on 23 November 1757, but the name of the wife is not recorded. There are no children recorded in Salmünster for Nicolaus Schreiner.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 524.
- 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): Sm11, Sm38.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Parish register of Salmünster.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 156.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4093 (p. 267).
Max Weinbinder
Brent Mai
Entry from the parish register of Salmünster recording the marriage of a Nicolaus Schreiner on 23 November 1757.
Source: Max Weinbinder.