Wilhelm Versteeg, a single weaver (Weber), arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 April 1766 aboard a two-masted merchant ship named Der Kleine Andreas (The Little Andrew) under the command of Skipper Jacob Jensen.
Widower Wilhelm Versteeg is recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 217 along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter). He has settled there on 5 March 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Versteeg came from the Dutch town of Hammerfurth [Amersfoort]. The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Versteeg came from the Dutch town of Amsterdam in Holland.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 54.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 320.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #82.
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