The births of the following children of Johann Heinrich Weisgerber are recorded in the parish of Wächtersbach: (1) Anna Maria, born 6 August 1741; (2) Johann Phillip, born 21 December 1749; (3) Johannes, born 20 August 1752; (4) Johann Heinrich, born 13 March 1755; and (5) Wolf Heinrich, born 27 November 1757.
Widower Heinrich Weisgerber, a farmer, and his children (Anna, age 24; Christoph, age 22; Katharina, age 20; Philipp, age 17½; Johann, age 14; Heinrich, age 13; Wolf, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Christoph Weisgerber, a farmer, his wife Louisa Margaretha, and brothers (Johannes, age 15; Johann Heinrich, age 12; Wolf Heinrich, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Huck in Household No. 33. They had arrived in Huck on 1 July 1767.
(1) Christoph Weisgerber, his wife Louisa, and daughters (Anna Maria, age 6; Maria Elisabeth, age ¼) are recorded on the 1775 census of Huck in Household No. 18.
Christoph Weisgerber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk18.
Christoph Weisgerber and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 18.
(2) Orphan Johannes Weisgerber (age 24) is recorded on the 1775 census of Huck in Household No. 25 along with the family of Heinrich Schneider. The 1775 census does not record a relationship between the Schneider and Weisgerber families.
Johannes Weisgerber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk53.
Johannes Weisgerber and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 53.
(3) Heinrich Weisgerber (age 19) is recorded on the 1775 census of Huck in Household No.18.
Heinrich Weisgerber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Nr042.
(4) Orphan Wolf Heinrich Weisgerber (age 15) is recorded on the 1775 census of Huck in Household No. 20 along with the family of Peter Geibel. The 1775 census does not record a relationship between the Geibel and Weisgerber families.
In 1786, son Wolf Heinrich Weisgerber moved from Huck to Walter.
Wolf Heinrich Weisgerber from Huck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Wt005.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Christoph Weisgerber came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Huck Census (Households No. 18, 20, 25).
- 1811 Huck Census (Household No. 11, 21, 53)
- 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): Hk18, Nr042, Wt005.
- Parish register of Wächtersbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 74.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3145.
Maggie Hein
Brent Mai
Entry on the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the family of Heinrich Weisgerber.
Source: Brent Mai.