Three Schröpfer families arrived together from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Der Jäger [The Hunter] under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will. Both settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. There relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johannes Schröpfer, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, son Johann (age 13), and sister Susanna (age 25) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johannes Schröpfer (age 40), a farmer, and his wife, Anna Dorothea, are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 98. [Son Johann (who was 13 when they arrived in Oranienbaum) is not recorded there with them, but appears on a later census.]
Susanna Schröpfer may be recorded as the [new] wife of Franz Dulson [see Dulson family] on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 8. [Franz Dulson later married Elisabeth, widow of Johannes Schröpfer (below).]
Johannes Schröpfer (age 45), son of Johannes Schröpfer, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps43.
(2) Johannes Schröpfer, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johannes Schröpfer (age 20) and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 80.
Johannes Schröpfer (age 54 [sic]) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps64.
The death of Johannes Schröpfer (age 55) of Preuss on 27 March 1803 is recorded in the parish register of Preuss.
Gottfried Schröpfer, presumed to be the son of Johannes Schröpfer, is recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps15.
Gottfried Schröpfer is recorded on the 1811 census of Preuss in household No. 14 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Neu-Kolonie [year not recorded].
Gottfried Schröpfer from Preuss is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 29 along with a note that he had arrived in Neu-Kolonie from Preuss in 1804.
Gottfried Schröpfer and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 18.
(3) Anna Maria Schröpfer also arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jäger [The Hunter] under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will along with her husband Franz Hess [see Hess family].
Anna Maria Hess née Schröpfer and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps45.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both of these Schröpfer families came from Luxembourg. The 1767 census records that they both came from the village of Remich in Luxembourg.
- 1811 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 29).
- 1811 Preuss Census (Household No. 14).
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 18).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ps15, Ps43, Ps45, Ps64.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 426, 430.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2167, #2174.
Brent Mai