Widow Maria Hauck and her daughters (Franziska, age 2; Maria, age 3-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 37 along with a note that they relocated to Katharinenstadt in 1768. They had arrived in Beauregard on 27 August 1766.
Maria Theresia née Gross (widow Hauck) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 95 as the wife of Heinrich Weisgerber along with her daughter Franziska (age 9). [See Weisgerber Family.]
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Maria Theresia came from the German village Ragol in the Trier region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Weisgerber family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 95).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 186.
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