Christian Friedrich Schulz, a single rope maker (Seilmacher), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
Christian Friedrich Schulz, a farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Urbach in Household No. 12 along with his [new] wife Anna Maria. They had arrived in Urbach on 13 July 1767.
In 1785, Friedrich Schulz and his family moved from Urbach to Reinhard.
The 1798 census of Katharinenstadt records Friedrich Schulz from Urbach in Household No. Ka115.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Friedrich Schulz came from the German region of Prussia. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Sohlen in the Brandenburg region. It is recorded on the 1767 census that his new wife, Anna Maria, came from the German region of Kurpfalz.
- 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): 421.
- 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): Ka115, Rh22, Mv2897.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 272.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3282.
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