Andreas Schuck, his wife Anna Kathairna, and sons (Walpert, age 5½; Johann, age 4; Johann [again], age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.
Andreas Schuch [sic], his wife Anna Catharina, and sons (Walpert, age 5¼; Johann Christoph, age 4; Johann, age 1½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that his wife and all of his sons died in route.
Andreas Schuck, a linen weaver (Leineweber), his [new] wife Dorothea, and [step-]daughter Helena [surname not recorded] (age 10) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 14.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Schuck came form the German village of Lohrkirchen [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schuck family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 197.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6864.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4775-4779.
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