Schwar(t)z (Volmer)
Peter Schwartz (age 23), a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Barbara Furmann (age 24), and daughter Susanna (age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 21 September 1765.
Peter Schwarz, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and daughters (Susanna, age 3; Anna Elisabeth, age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 39. They had arrived in Volmer on 18 July 1767.
Peter Schwartz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm05.
The 1765 Worms list records that Peter Schwartz came from the German village of Kronenburg. The 1767 census records that Peter Schwarz came from the German village of Kromburg bei Memmingen.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 120 (#184-186).
- 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): Vm05.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 292.
Brent Mai