Johann Georg Wetlaufer, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and [step-]son Johann Heinrich [Kaiser] (age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Widower Georg Wetlaufer, a farmer, and his step-son Johann Heinrich Kaiser (age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No 158. They had arrived in Norka on 15 August 1767.
Georg Wetlaufer, his wife Susanna, and children (Johann Peter, age 13; Anna Maria, age 13; Elisabeth Margaretha, age 4) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 29.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Georg Wetlaufer came from the German region of Hessen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 29).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 648.
- 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): Kk20, Nr015, Mv1958.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 271.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5205.
Brent Mai