Welsch (Schäfer)

Johannes Welsch, son of Johann Jakob Welsch, was born 5 December 1721 in Ölbronn. He married Maria Margaretha Kluge, daughter of Georg Balthasar Kluge, on 3 February 1750 in the Ölbronn Evangelical Church [today called Ölbronn-Dürrn]. She had been born in 1732.

They had four boys, each born in Ölbronn: (1) Johann Jakob, born 20 February 1752, baptized 21 February 1752; (2) Georg Adam, born & baptized in March 1755; (3) Johannes, born 1 February 1758; and (4) Christian Ulrich, born & baptized 29 October 1760.

Johannes and his family immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), departing from Altona, Duchy of Holstein, on 13 July 1761 under the leadership of Georg Hermann. They arrived in the city of Flensburg, Duchy of Schleswig, on 17 July 1761.

Johannes Welsch and his family lived in Denmark for three or four years. They immigrated to Russia, arriving in the Volga German colony of Schäfer on 6 August 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.

In 1793, widow Maria Welsch and her son moved from Schäfer to Urbach.

Welsch descendants are recorded in Schäfer on the 1798 Census in Households No. Sf23 & Sf25.

Gottlieb Welsch, son of Johannes Welsch, from Schäfer is recorded on the 1811 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 44.

The death of Gottlieb Welsch in 1858 [sic] is recorded on the 1857 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 109.