Georg Frantz Wittwänger, a cabinetmaker (Schreiner) from Auerach, married on 13 May 1766 in St. Mary's Lutheran Church in Büdingen to Dorothea Leonhard from Sprenglingen. She had been born 31 May 1737 in Sprendlingen.
Franz Wittwänger, a joiner (Tischler), and his wife Anna Dorothea arrived from Lübeck on 14 August 1766 aboard a 2-masted merchant ship named Die Jungfer Frederika (The Maiden Frederika) under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Georg Franz Wittwänger, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Dorothea, and daughter Anna Maria (age 1) settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Wittwänger came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Georg Franz Wittwänger came from the German village of Aurach [Auerbach?] in the Württemberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 711.
- 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): Fk064.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #638.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 428.
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