Johann Heinrich Weber was born 26 February 1749 in Oberklingen, the son of Johann Heinrich Weber and his wife Anna Catharina.
Heinrich Weber, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin along with his cousin Anna Maria Weber, daughter of Johann Heinrich Weber of Oberklingen & Elisabeth Christina Sophia Kroh of König.
They are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Anna Maria traveled to Russia along with her first husband Johann Heinrich Röttger and their children. Johann Heinrich Röttger died during the trip, and Anna Maria married Michael Heimbüchner. They settled in Frank.
The Weber family can be traced back five generations to Johannes Weber, born about 1560 in Hering.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Weber came from the German region of the Pfalz.
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