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Schu(h)macher (Warenburg)

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Schuhmacher (Warenburg)
Schumacher (Warenburg)
Шумахеръ (Warenburg)
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Discussion & Documentation

Johann Konrad Schuhmacher, a single tailor (Schneider), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.

Johann Conrad Schumacher is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Konrad Schuhmacher (age 22), a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Kathairna (age 34) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 133. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Konrad Schuhmacher came from the German region of Wetzlar while the 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Dawizler.

Sources

- 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): 273.
- 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): Wr032.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 341.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1985.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1754.

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Volga Colonies