Johann Adam Wellinger [sic], a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Johann Adam Wallinger, his wife Anna, and daughter Maria Elisabeth (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that newborn Maria Elisabeth died en route.
He is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits attached to the 1767 census in Household No. 69 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Wittmann in 1768.
The widow and sons (Adam, age 22; Johannes, age 20) of Adam Wallinger [some translations record surname as Valentin] are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm02.
The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Wellinger [sic] came from Burinos [?].
- 1834 Wittmann Census (Households No. 2, 7, 14).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 846.
- 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): Wm02.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 362.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6852.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4768-4770.
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