Georg Weninger, a stone mason, his wife Kunigunda an dson Johann[es] (age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
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 en route.
Surviving son Johannes (age 14) is recorded on 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 88. He had settled there on 7 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Weininger came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that son Johannes Weninger came from the German region of Bamberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 309.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1553.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1433-1435.
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