There are two Schwab families that settled in the Volga German colony of Schwab on 8 July 1767. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Georg Schwab, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwab in Household No. 1 where he is recorded as the colony's mayor (Vorsteher).
The widow and children of Johann Georg Schwab are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb11.
Johannes Schwab, son of Georg Schwab, relocated to the colony of Shcherbakovka in 1810. He and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. 80.
The death of Johannes Schwab in 1849 is recorded on the 1850 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. 168.
Before 1868, Johann Dietrich Schwab, grandson of Johannes Schwab, relocated from Shcherbakovka to the colony of Galka.
[Johann] Heinrich Schwab, son of Johann Georg Schwab, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schwab in Household No. 9.
Georg Friedrich Schwab, grandson of Johann Heinrich Schwab, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Friedenberg.
(2) Johann Peter Schwab & Maria Catharina Wolff were married on 22 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Peter Schwab, a farmer, and his wife Maria Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwab in Household No. 4 along with her son Johann Konrad (age 5) [surname not recorded].
Johann Peter Schwab and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb12.
The 1767 census records that both Georg Schwab and Peter Schwab came from the German village of Ranstadt.
- 1834 Schwab Census (Household No. 9).
- 1834 Shcherbakovka Census (Households No. 25, 80).
- 1850 Schwab Census (Households No. 11, 12).
- 1850 Shcherbakovka Census (Household No. 168).
- 1857 Friedenberg Census.
- 1857 Schwab Census (Households No. 11,12).
- 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): Sb11, Sb12.
- 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): #461.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 127, 128.
Brent Mai