Philipp Anton Artzer, son of Karl & Theresia Artzer, married in Wiesbach on 26 February 1743 to Maria Catharina Götte, daughter of Johannes & Anna Maria Götte.
They had several children born in Wiesbach among whom are: (1) Anna Elisabeth, born 11 November 1751; (2) Balthasar, born 12 February 1754; and (3) Katharina Barbara, born 15 August 1757.
Maria Catharina Artzer née Götte died, and Philipp Anton Artzer remarried in Wiesbach on 27 October 1761 to Maria Margaretha Brungard, daughter of Franz Brungard. [See Brungard Family.]
The baptisms of two children born to Philipp Anton Artzer & Maria Margaretha Brungard are recorded in the parish register of Contwig: (1) Anna Angelica, baptized 23 September 1762; and (2) Catharina Margaretha, baptized 4 November 1763.
Anton Artzer, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Anna Elisabeth, age 16; Johann Balthasar, age 11; Katharina Barbara, age 8; Katharina Margaretha, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767. Anton Artzer is recorded as a widower on the 1767 Census in Sewald living in Household No. 33 along with the children.
Widower Anton Artzer and the family of his deceased son Balthasar are recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Household No. Sd23.
The death of Anton Artzer in 1804 is recorded on the 1811 census of Sewald in Household No. 23.
Kaspar Artzer, son of Balthasar Artzer, is recorded on the 1811 census of Sewald in Household No. 23 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Kamenka [year not recorded].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Artzer came from the German region of Schwabrück. The 1767 census of Sewald records that Anton is from Stambach, just east of Contwig.
- 1811 Sewald Census (Household No. 23).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 426.
- 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): Sd23, Sd34.
- Parish records for Contwig (LDS Film No. 489413).
- Parish records for Wiesbach (LDS Film No. 247677).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 174.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3324.
Brent Mai
Jerry Braun