Three Viehrath families settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johann Friedrich Viehrath, a corporal [military?], and his wife Anna Stiegenland are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 68.
Johann Friedrich Viehrath and his wife Anna née Stiegenland are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 74.
The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Viehrath came from the German region of Berlin and that Anna Stiegenland came from the town of Den Haag in Holland [The Hague, Netherlands]. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johann Friedrich Viehrath came from the area of Mittelmark in Berlin and that his wife came from The Hague in Holland.
(2) Johann Viehrath, a single distiller (Weinbrenner), is recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 181.
The 1767 census records that he came from the village of Dse [?].
(3) Anna [née Viehrath] (age 18) and her husband Peter Schwertz are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 47. [See Schwertz Family.]
Peter Schwertz (age 37), a farmer, his wife Anna Maria née Viehrath (age 26), and son Johann Friedrich [age not recorded] are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 98.
In 1790, Peter Schwertz and his wife left Katharinenstadt.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Anna née Viehrath came from the German village of Mittelmark near Berlin.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Households No. 74, 98).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 286, 291, 314.
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