Spelling Variations
Weber (Katharinenstadt)*
Веберъ (Katharinenstadt)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Friedrich Weber, a soldier (Soldat), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 23 along with his stepson Peter Wagner (age 12). [See Wagner Family.]
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Weber came from the German town of Dresden in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this Weber family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 281.
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Brent Mai