Friedrich Schaeffer (1739 - 1804)

Friedrich Schaeffer aka Schaffer

Born 1739 in Ober-Ramdstadt, Hessen, Germany

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Husband of Elzabeth Schwert — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Descendants

Father of Joseph Schaeffer

Died 1804 at about age 65 [location unknown]

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Biography

Friedrich Schaeffer has roots in the region now known as Hessen, Germany.

Friedrich Schaeffer was a Volga German.

Friedrich was born in 1739. Friedrich was one of the founders of the Catholic village of Kamenka on the hilly side of the Volga River. Brent Mai reported at an AHSGR conference in September 2020 that most 18th-c. Hessians were Lutheran, but there was also a Catholic minority in that region. Friedrich passed away in 1804.

Sources

Schaefer Genealogy: The Descendants of Friedrich and Elisabeth (Schwert) Schaefer, Kevin Rupp, 2011
https://volga.domains.unf.edu/surnames/sch%C3%A4fer-kamenka-2
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): Km048.
Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 227.

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