Johannes Scheidemantel and Anna Margaretha Wölcker married in Unterhaun on 2 April 1765. Johannes, the son of Johannes Scheidemantel and Anna Martha Heintz, was born in Rotensee on 19 June 1739, baptized on 21 June 1739, and confirmed in 1753. Anna Margaretha, the daughter of Caspar Wölcker and Anna Elisabeth Klotzbach, was born in Rotensee 11 November 1728, baptized 14 November 1728, and confirmed in 1742.
Johannes Scheidemantel and Anna Margaretha Wölcker had one son, Niclaus, born in Rotensee on 31 May 1765 and baptized in Unterhaun on 2 June 1765.
Lured by Catherine’s Manifesto, the Schedemantel and Bachmann families set out as Russian colonists in the spring of 1766 and traveled with a transport group to the Baltic seaport of Lübeck. They set sail from Lübeck and arrived in Oranienbaum, Russia (now Lomonosov) on July 19, 1766, aboard the Russian pink “Novaya Dvinka” under the command of Lt. Ivan Perepechin.
After more than a year of travel, they arrived in the colony of Norka on August 15, 1767. Niclaus is not listed in the household of Johannes and Anna Margaretha Scheidemantel in the 1767 Census of Norka, suggesting that he must have died en route or during transport to the colonies.
The 1775 Census for Norka reports Johannes Scheidemantel, his wife Anna Margaretha, and an orphan Johann Georg Reiswig.
On the 1798 Census of Norka, Johannes Scheidemantel is now married to Barbara Felger (Völker). This census reports a total of 7 children: Johannes, Johann Peter, Johann Martin, Johann Heinrich, Cunigunde, Katharina Elisabetha, and Anna Katharina.
The surname is generally spelled Scheidemann in later records.
Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck - Kirchenkreis Hersfeld - Unterhaun, Hauna - Kirchenbuch 1714-1772 - Accessed on Archion.de
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Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institute, 2005): p. 251, Household 84.
Rauschenbach, Georg and Idt, Andreas. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766. (Moscow: 2019): p. 31, No. 36.
Rye, Richard, translator. 1775 Census of Norka (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1995): p. 28, Household 173.
Rye, Richard, translator. 1798 Census of Norka (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1995): p. 64, Household 182.
