Semerefi*
Anton Semerefi, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughters (Johanna, age 8; Katharina, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the command of Skipper Paul Adam Drath.
Anton Semereve [sic], his wife Anna, and daughters (Johanna, age 8; Catharina, age 4, died en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Anton Semerefi, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Johanna (age 10) are recroded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 48. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.
The 1767 census records that Anton Semerefi came from the German village of Edel [?] in the region of Schwaben (Swabia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 158.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6035.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6756-6759.
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