Georg Weninger, a stone mason, his wife Kunigunda and son Johann[es] (age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Georg Weninger, his wife Cunigunda, and son Johannes (age 13) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Cunigunda died in route.
Surviving son Johannes (age 14) is recorded on 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 88. He had arrived in Ober-Monjou on 7 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Weninger came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that son Johannes Weninger came from the German region of Bamberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Weninger family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 221.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1553.
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