Schäfer (Seelmann)
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Schäfer (Seelmann)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Pantrazius Schäfer, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Heinrich Sager.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 5 September 1767 where he is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 53 along with a new wife Anna.
The 1767 census records that Pankraz Schäfer came from the German village of Gauerstadt in the Bamberg region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 159.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6136.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai