Schuster (Orlovskaya)*
Christian Friedrich Schuster & Maria Sophia Hedicke were married on 7 April 1766 in Roßlau.
Christian Schuster, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Christian Schuster and his wife Sophia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767. Christian and his new wife Sophia are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 29.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Schuster came from the German region of Zerbst while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Bitterfeld.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schuster family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga, 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #5382-5383.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #907.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 318.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1275.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0550-0551.
Brent Mai