[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Schmidt location?

[Irene König]

 > Looking at other entries in the file, the "born Schmidt" would mean
 > that she was born in a place named "Schmidt" in 1823. So where would
 > that be? There is no place by that name in the Volhynia Gazetteer -
 > does anyone have any idea where it might be referring to?


Dave,
The truth is in the actual church records. They can be viewed online 
through the Pilot Project of familysearch.org

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/#start

Click on "Browse our record collection", then click on Europe on the 
map, then on "Russia Lutheran Church Book Duplicates", then scroll down 
to Volyn --> Zhitomir --> Shitomir: Shitomir --> 1867: Births, 
marriages, deaths (828-14/151) --> View 48 Images --> Image 38 of 48

There you'll find the following:

gestorben (died): 1867, 26 Juny, 2 Uhr morgens (a.m.)

begraben (buried): 28 Juny nachmittags (in the afternoon)

Dorothea Strefling, geb. (born) Schmidt, Ehefrau des Kolonisten (spouse 
of colonist) Michael Strefling

aus Polen (born in Poland)

44 Jahre (44 years old)

Todesursache: Wassersucht (cause of death: dropsy)

beerdigt auf dem luth. Kirchhofe zu Friedensdorf von Kirchenschullehrer 
Heinrich Behrend (burial in the Lutheran Cemetery of Friedensdorf by 
Heinrich Behrend, schoolteacher [of the church])

--
Irene König