August Schüller, a turner (Dreher), his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 13; Johannes, age 10¼; Konrad, age 5½; Adam, age 4; Anna, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
August Schüler [sic], his wife Catharina, and sons (Nicolaus, age 13; Johannes, age 10½; Conrad, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits that was attached to the 1767 census (No. 99).
August Schüller, his wife Katharina née Cherber [Kelbert?], sons (Nikolaus, age 21; Konrad, age 6; Johannes, age ¾), and Nikolaus's wife Julianna [surname not recorded] are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 100 along with a note that Heinrich Jakob Schüller was born 15 November 1780 [his parents are not indicated; he could be the son of either August & Katharina or Nikolaus & Julianna].
August Schüller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka090.
The death of August Schüller is recorded on 3 April 1806 in the parish register of Katharinenstadt.
The widow of Nikolaus Schüller and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka095.
Konrad Schüller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka092.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that August Schüller came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Priers in the Trier region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that August Schüller came from the German village of Ausfass [possibly Aufseß] in the Bayreuth region.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 100).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 684.
- 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): Ka090, Ka092, Ka095.
- Parish register of Katharinenstadt.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 368.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5435.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3619-3623.
Brent Mai