Child #1 Johann Nikolaus Schott, age 35, by first wife
Wife of Child #1 Maria Barbara Schott, age 27
Grandchild #1 Johann Jakob Schott, age 8
Grandchild #2 Johann Peter Schott, age 6
Grandchild #3 Johann Friedrich Schott, age 3
Grandchild #4 Christian Jakob Schott, age 1
Child #2 Jakob Peter Schott, age 27, by first wife
Wife of Child #2 Elisabeth Schott, age 18
Child #3 Johann Heinrich Schott, age 19, by second wife
Child #4 Philipp Jakob Schott, age 15, by second wife
Child #5 Michael Gomersheimer, age 8 in 1834, stepson to Philipp Schott, to household #266
The 1857 census shows two children attributed to son Christian Jakob and his wife Magdalena. Unless the ages are incorrect, the children are too old to have either Christian or Magdalena be their parents. The eldest child would have made Christian Schott a father at age 10 and Magdalena Schott a mother at age 6. See:
Child #4 Christian Schott
Wife of Child #4 Magdalena Schott
Grandchildren #4 and #5 Alexander and Michael Schott
There are four possibilities:
Michael and his brother Alexander were adopted, either formally or informally, by Christian Jakob and Magdalena.
Christian Jakob and Magdalena were the paternal aunt and uncle of Alexander and Michael who took over parenting after the death of their biological parents.
Attaching the two boys to Christian Jakob and Magdalena Schott was a census taker error.
There was a census taker error regarding their ages; they should have been 4 and 1 years old instead of 14 and 11.
I have kept the two brothers in the census entry below exactly as they are in the 1857 census, with only their birth years changed to prevent an error message. I have also given them the Schott surname, since no other surname is listed. If it is discovered that the two brothers have a different surname, their records will be updated accordingly.
Wife of Brother #2 Elisabeth Schott, 26, second wife
Child #10 Georg Schott, age 19, by first wife
Child #11 Katharina Elisabeth Schott, age 11, by first wife
Child #12 Eva [Katharina] Elisabeth Schott, age 10, by first wife
Child #13 Konrad Schott, age 8, by first wife
Child #14 Heinrich Schott, age 5, mother not certain
Child #15 Christian Jakob Schott, age 1, by second wife
Brother #3 Philipp Jakob Schott, age 38
Wife of Brother #3 Maria Katharina Schott, age 34
Child #16 Katharina Barbara Schott, age 16
Child #17 Katharina Elisabeth Schott, age 14
Child #18 Johann Friedrich Schott, age 12
Child #19 Charlotta Schott, age 9
Child #20 Anna Elisabeth Schott, age 6
Child #21 Michael Schott, age 5
Child #22 Georg Jakob Schott, age 2 years 6 months
Child #23 Georg Peter Schott, age 6 weeks
In the 1897 census there is a granddaughter of Christian Jakob Schott whose father is not identified. She may be the daughter on one of his older sons, Alexander or Michael, or another son who was born after the 1857 census and died before the 1897 census. After reviewing the other census entries for Alexander Schott, age 44, and Michael Schott, age 43, I found there was no Alexander Schott listed. This may mean that Alexander was deceased, his wife remarried and living in another household, and his daughter still living with her paternal grandfather.
Head of the Household Christian Jakob Schott, age 63
Wife Maria Katharina Schott, age 60, second wife
Child #1 Christian Jakob Schott, age 27
Wife of Child #1 Eva Katharina Schott, age 26
Grandchild #1 Christian Jakob Schott, age 4
Grandchild #2 Alexander Schott, age 2
Grandchild #3 Unnamed Female Schott, under 1 month old
Grandchild #4 Katharina Schott, age 12, but no indication of who her father was
Sources
↑1834 Census of Grimm in the District of Saratov, Russia, dated 2 February 1835; Translated by Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Published by Dynasty Publishing, Beaverton, OR, USA; Published 2011; page 60, family #197, Philipp Schott family.
↑1857 Census of Grimm in the District of Saratov, Russia, dated 5 November 1857; Translated by Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Published by Dynasty Publishing, Beaverton, OR, USA; Published 2005; page 84, family #225, Nikolaus Schott family.
↑ 3.03.1 Can't be biological child of Christian Jakob and Magdalena Schott because he is too old; would have made Christian Jakob a father at age 10 and Magdalena a mother at age 6.
↑1897 Grimm (Lesnoi Karamysh), Russia Census List, Translated by Richard Rye, Compiled and edited by John Groh, Contributor Henry Schmick; American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published 2017; page 244, family #143, Christian Jakob Schott family.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jakob by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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