Widow Katharina Wagener and her son Johann Peter (age 12) settled in the Volga German colony of Graf on 10 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12.
Peter Wagener and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Graf in Household No. Gf21.
The sons of Peter Wagener and their families are recorded on the 1834 census of Graf in Households No. 12, 42, & 43.
The 1767 census records that Katharina Wagener came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
[Some translations record this surname as Wagner.]
- 1834 Graf Census (Households No. 12, 42, 43).
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Gf21.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 62.
Brent Mai