Anton Wendler, a weaver, his wife Maria, and children (Christina, age 13; Anna, age 12; Katharina, age 10; Johann, age 9; Jakob, age 8; Louisa, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Anton Wendler, his wife Louisa, and children (Christina, age 13; Anna Elisabeth, age 12; Cathrina, age 11; Friedrich, age 9; Jacob, age 8; Louisa, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the father Anton died en route.
His widow remarried to Johannes Thüringer and settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28 along with the surviving Wendler children.
In 1780, Heinrich Wendler moved from Ober-Monjou to Dehler.
Heinrich Wendler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl03.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Wendler came from the German region of the Pfalz.
[There are some early transcriptions that record this surname as Wendeler.]
- 1834 Dehler Census (Household No. 78).
- 1857 Dehler Census (Household No. 94).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Dl03, Om05, Mv2053.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 296.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4605.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5880-5887.
Brent Mai