Mathias Wagner, a miller, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 17; Anna Maria, age 5; Katharina, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a ship named Der Ringende Jacob (The Wrestling Jacob) under the command of Skipper Johann Heitmann.
They are recorded on the 1775 census of Kamenka in Household No. 80.
In 1796, widow Anna Maria Wagner and her children (Samuel, Johann, Peter, & Katharina) left Kamenka.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mathias Wagner came from the German region of Nassau.
- 1775 Census of Kamenka (No. 80).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 531.
- 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): Mv1122.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4153 (p. 270).
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