Jakob Wagenleitner, a weaver (Tuchweber), his wife Klara, and children (Philipp Jakob, age 6; Maria Katharina, age 5; Johann Wilhelm, age 1) 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.
Jacob Wagenleiter [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Jakob Wagenleitner (age 31), a wool weaver (Wollweber), his wife Anna Klara (age 40), and children (Philipp Jakob, age 8; Johann Wilhelm [age not recorded], Anna Katharina [age not recorded] are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 137. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767.
In 1790, Johann Wilhelm Wagenleitner moved from Warenburg to Dinkel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Wagenleitner came from the German region of Linz while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Linz in the region of Oberösterreich.
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Brent Mai