Matthias Schwab and Maria Anna Bassian

1. Pleve, Igor, List of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg, Saratov, Russia:  Saratov State Technical University, 2010, p. 395.
2. Pleve, Igor, Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 4 (Kolonien Reinhardt - Warenburg), Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 2008.
3. Boyd, Darryl and Dreiling, Trecil (comp.), Rohleder Parish Records 1801 to 1857, https://volgaparishes.com/rohleder_page.html, 2022.
4. Kholmatov, Bachtiar (trans.), No. 2838, The 1798 Description of the Saratov colony of Semenovka, No. 119, Lincoln, NE:  American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1996.
5. Kholmatov, Bachtiar (trans.), No. 2836, Description of the Saratov colony of Gnilushka also known as Pfeifer, No. 117, Lincoln, NE:  American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1995.
6. Rye, Richard (trans.), Extracts from the 1834 Census of the German Colony of Semenovka, Lincoln, Nebraska: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1996.

List of Colonists to Russia in 1766

13 of September 1766.
Public colonists, arrived from Luebeck by the Luebeck's
Galliot "Die Perle" with the Skipper Thomson

Schwab Mathias, Cath., farmer from Mainz, doc. No. 6256, wife: Marianna.

Source:  Pleve, Igor, List of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg, Saratov, Russia:  Saratov State Technical University, 2010, p. 395.

First Settlers List

Kolonie Semenovka
(deutscher Ortsname: Rötling)
gegründet am 24. Juli 1767


28. Schwab, Matthias, 24, kath. Ackerbauer aus Kurmainz, Eichstätt?
Frau: Maria Anna, 18
Sohn: Johann Caspar, 3
in der Kolonie eingetroffen am 24.7.1767
erhalten vom Vormundschaftskontor in Saratov 15 Rbl., 2 Pfd., 1 Unterwagen, 2 Achsen, 2 Gabeldeichseln, 1 Krummholz, 1 Fimmerstrang, 18 Sažen' Seil, 1 Spaten, 1 Sense, 1 Pflugschar
1768 gab es in der Wirtschaft 2 Pfd.

Source: Pleve, Igor, Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 4 (Kolonien Reinhardt - Warenburg), Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 2008.

Semenovka Parish Records

Births and Baptisms

Photo        Line    Year    Birth       Baptism    Child                           Father                                  Mother                                        Village

180401      20       1803    12  22    12    23      Margaretha               Christoph Schwab             Rosina Rup                                  Semenovka    

180602      16       1806    4    23    4      23      Johann Georg           Christophorus Schwab      Rosina Rupp                               Semenova

180602      17       1806    4    23    4      23      Ma. Eleonora             Christophorus Schwab      Rosina Rupp                               Semenova

1809_04    6         1809    4    19    4      10      Maria Eleanora          Christoph Schwab             Rosina Ruppinn                          Semenovka

1811_05    10       1811    9    11    9      12      Ignatius                       Christophori Schwab         Rosina Ruppinn                          Semenovka   

1814_06    12       1814    6    17    6      18      Anna Margar.            Christophori Schwab         Rosina Rupp                               Semenovka    

180403      8         1804    10  3      10    3        Elisabetha                  Philipp Schwab                  Elisabeth Ortmann                     Semenovka    

180502      50       1805    9    14    9      15      Nicholas                     Phillippus Schwab              Elisabeth Ortman                       Semenovka    

180802      25       1808    2    --      2     11       Christoph Joseph     PhilipSchwab                      Anna Elis: Ortmann                    Semenovka

1810_07    1         1810    8    11     8     11       Joannes Caspar      Philippi Schwab                  Anna Elis: Ortmänninn               Semenovka

1815_10    1         1815    6    12     6     12       Aloysius                     Philippi Schwab                  Anna Elisabetha Ortmann        Semenovka        

1816_09    8         1816    7    30     7     30       Conrad                     Philippi Schwab                  Anna Elisab: Schwab                Semenovka    

Deaths

Photo        Line    Year    Age            Date        Name                                   Village

180404      54       1804    8 days        10    10     Elisabeth Schwab                Semenovka

180603      53       1806    1/2 year     10    01     Johann Georg Schwab      Semenovka

1812_10    22       1812    6 months    1    17       Ignatius Schwab                  Semenovka

1815_21    8         1815    1 day          6    13      Aloysius Schwab                   Semenovka

Source: Boyd, Darryl (comp.), Semenovka Parish Records, https://volgaparishes.com/semenovka_page.html, 2022.

Semenovka Census, 4 Oct 1798

Register made for the Office [Kontora] of Immigrant Oversight by Deputy of the Chief Justice, Court Counsellor Popov, in the colony of Semenovka, listing the male and female foreign residents, their ages, which males between the ages of 16 to 60 years are able to work, and remarks by the colonists about the colony, by personal observation. October 4, 1798.

No.	Names of Foreigners	Age	No. of Souls		Able or not to work		Remarks
			M	F	Y	N
23.	Christoph Schwab	23	1		1
	wife Rosina Rup [Rupp]	25		1
	daughter:  Anna Elisabetha	½		1
	daughter of Rosina's deceased brother:  Anna Maria			1
35.	Matthias Schwab	51	1			1	paralyzed
	wife Maria Anna Bassian [?]	50		1
	son:  Philip	27	1		1
	wife Anna Elisabetha Ortman [Ortmann, Orthmann]	23		1
	sons:
	Philip	3	1			1
	Andreas	2	1			1
	daughter:  Magdalena	1		1
	daughter:  Anna Margareta	15		1

Register made for the Office [Kontora] of Immigrant Oversight by Deputy of the Chief Justice, Court Counsellor Popov, in the colony of Semenovka, listing those foreigners who have departed the colony for various places and those widows and maidens given in marriage. October 4, 1798.

No.	Who, where left colony	When (yr.)
13.	Anna Maria, daughter of Matthias Schwab, married Heinrich Faif [Pfeif] in Gnilushka [Pfeifer]	1794
19.	Magdalena, daughter of Matthias Schwab, married Adam Lambrecht in Gnilushka [Pfeifer]	1798

Register made for the Office [Kontora] of Immigrant Oversight by Fellow of the Chief Justice, Court Counsellor Popov, in the colony of Semenovka, indicating the number of workers, livestock and fowl in each family, the crops planted in the autumn of 1796 and the spring of 1797, and the harvests therefrom.*

No.	Head of Household	Workers	Livestock				Fowl
			Horses	Cows	Sheep	Swine	Geese	Turkeys	Ducks	Chickens
23.	Christoph Schwab	1	4	10		4				25
35.	Matthias Schwab	1	5	10	15	13				20

No.	Planted in 1796 and 1797
	Rye		Wheat		Barley		Oats		Millet		Peas		Potato
	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C
23.	2		4			3	2	4		1			1	4
35.	2	4	3	6	1		3			1			2

No.	Harvests of grain, potatoes and tobacco 1797
	Rye		Wheat		Barley		Oats		Millet		Peas		Potato		Tobacco
	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C	¼	C	Pood
23.	8	3	25		1	5	12	4	6	2			4	3
35.	18	4	30	2	6	2	22	4	7	4			20

* ¼=chetvert, C=chetverik.

Source:  Kholmatov, Bachtiar (trans.), No. 2838, The 1798 Description of the Saratov colony of Semenovka, No. 119, Lincoln, NE:  American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1996.

Pfeifer Census, Oct 1798

Register made for the Office [Kontora] of Immigrant Oversight by Fellow of the Chief Justice, Court Counsellor Popov, in the colony of Gnilushka [Pfeifer], about the number of foreigners residing therein, males and females; with an indication of their ages, who among them from the age of 16 to 60 years is able to work, and remarks about the colony, by personal observation. October 1798.

No.	Names of Foreigners	Age	No. of Souls		Able or not to work		Remarks
			M	F	Y	N
40.	Johannes Pfeifer	60	1			1
	wife Katerina Jäger	50		1
	son:  Heinrich	28	1		1
	wife Anna Maria Schwab from Semenovka	25		1
	sons:
	Matthias	2	1			1
	Peter	½	1			1

Register made for the Office [Kontora] of Immigrant Oversight by Fellow of the Chief Justice, Court Counsellor Popov, in the colony of Gnilushka [Pfeifer], with an explanation of the number of workers, livestock and fowl in each family, and an indication of crops planted in the autumn of 1796 and the spring of 1797, and the harvests therefrom.*

No.	Head of Household	Workers	Livestock				Fowl
			Horses	Cows	Sheep	Swine	Geese	Turkeys	Ducks	Chickens
40.	Johannes Pfeifer	1	5	9	10	4				12

No.

Planted in 1796 and 1797

Rye

Wheat

Barley

Oats

Millet

Peas

Potato

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

40.

3

1

4

3

1

4

3

2

2

No.

Harvest of grain and potatoes, 1797

Rye

Wheat

Barley

Oats

Millet

Peas

Potato

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

¼

C

40.

6

12

5

4

3

6

8

* ¼=chetvert, C=chetverik.

Source:  Kholmatov, Bachtiar (trans.), No. 2836, Description of the Saratov colony of Gnilushka also known as Pfeifer, No. 117, Lincoln, NE:  American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1995.

Semenovka Census (Extracts), 1834

11.          Christian Schwab             age  59                   Rosina                    age 63                            12 persons in family

66.          Matthias Schwab - died 1819
                son: Philip                          age 63                                                                                           6 persons in family

Source: Rye, Richard (trans.), Extracts from the 1834 Census of the German Colony of Semenovka, Lincoln, Nebraska: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1996.