Johann Georg Windecker married Susanna Elisabetha Ehrlich had four children: (1) Anna Christina; (2) Franz Christian; (3) Anna Maria, born in June 1754 in Herrnhaag; and (4) Johann Benedict, born 26 September 1756 in Herrnhaag. Susanna died and in May 1762, Johann Georg remarried in Herrnhaag to Anna Elisabeth Wenzel, daughter of Conrad Wenzel.
Frantz Christian Windecker married on 21 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen to Anna Catharina Koch, youngest daughter of the deceased Caspar Koch former subject of Lorbach.
Johann Georg Windecker, a weaver, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Christina, age 23; Anna Maria, age 13; Benedict, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin along with Franz Christian & his new wife Katharina.
The father and stepmother died in route to the Volga colonies as only the children are recorded on the 1767 census of Walter: Anna Christina (married to Christian Diehl) and her sister Anna Maria are in Household No. 36 and [a] Franz & [b] Benedict are in Household No. 81.
(a) Widower Franz Windecker and his sons (Franz Christian, Johann Peter, & Georg Michael) and their families are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt006.
Jakob Windecker, son of Franz Christian Windecker, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Walter in Household No. 204.
Peter Windecker and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Walter in Household No. 213.
Georg Michael Windecker, son of Franz Windecker, is recorded on the 1811 census of Walter in Household No. 6 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Hussenbach [year not recorded].
Georg [Michael] Weindecker [sic] from Walter is recorded on the 1811 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 14 along with a note that he had arrived in Hussenbach from Walter in 1802.
Michael Windecker and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Hussenbach in Household No. 85.
(b) [Benedict] Peter Windecker and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Beideck in Household No. Bd72.
The death of Peter Windecker in 1819 is recorded in the 1834 census of Beideck in Household No. 93.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Windecker family came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1811 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 14).
- 1811 Walter Census (Household No. 6).
- 1834 Beideck Census (Households No. 93, 133, 134, 183).
- 1834 Hussenbach Census (Household No. 85).
- 1834 Walter Census (Households No. 204, 213).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 486.
- 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): Bd72, Wt006.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #458.
- Parish register of Herrnhaag (LDS Film No. 1201842).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 303 & 313.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3804a, #3806.
Patricia Gayol Windecker
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