Christian Weber, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Katharina (age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.
In 1788, Johannes Weber moved from Kautz to Jost.
Widow Katharina Weber is recorded on the 1798 census of Kautz in Household No. Kz20.
Johann Weber from Kautz is recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo39 along with a note that he is tending livestock in Laub.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Weber came from the German region of Pfalz.
- 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): 736.
- 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): Jo39, Kz20, Kz30, Mv1240.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5888.
Brent Mai