Johann Schwab, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria [sic], and children (Elisabeth, age 24; Anna Maria, age 22; Margaretha, age 20; Johann[es], age 18; Peter, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 18 June 1767. Widow Anna Margaretha [sic] and several of the children are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.
Johannes Schwab and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh048.
Peter Schwab and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh033.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Schwab came from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that Anna Margaretha Schwab came from the German village of Köthen in the Stolberg region.
- 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): 268.
- 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): Dh033, Dh048.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 355.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1926.
Brent Mai