Nicolaus & Catharina Weber had 9 children whose baptisms are recorded in the parish register of Canach: (1) [a] Johannes, baptized 3 February 1735; (2) [b] Heinrich, baptized 26 October 1736; (3) Margaretha, baptized 24 February 1740; (4) Petrus, baptized 3 April 1743; (5) Anna Catharina, baptized 27 January 1746; (6) Magdalena, baptized 21 October 1748; (7) Nicolaus, baptized 2 August 1751; (8) Johannes Jacobus, baptized 26 June 1754; and (9) Petrus, baptized 9 February 1757.
[a] Heinrich Weber married Agnes Grün on 4 August 1764 in Canach.
Heinrich Weber, a farmer, and his wife Anna Elisabeth [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Heinrich Weeber is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Heinrich Weber, a farmer, and his wife Agnes are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 22. They had arrived in Seelmann on 15 July 1767.
[b] Johann Weber, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Johann Weeber is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Weber and his wife Maria are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 23. They had arrived in Seelmann on 15 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both Johannes & Heinrich Weber came from Luxembourg. The 1767 census records that the both came from the village of Kanug [Kanach] in Luxembourg.
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- Parish register of Canach.
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