Spelling Variations
Wittig (Pobochnaya)
Витигъ (Pobochnaya)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Joachim Christian Wittig, his wife Eva Maria Oswald, and daughters (Maria, age 3½; Juliana, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 July 1772 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Hartwig.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya on 4 July 1773.
They are recorded on a 1773 list of Pobochnaya settlers (No. 2).
The Wittig family is recorded on the 1798 census of Pobochnaya in Households No. Pb09 and Pb26.
Sources
- 1773 Pobochnaya Census (No. 2).
- 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): Pb09, Pb26.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
Immigrated to the following locations
Pre-Volga Origin
no results
Volga Colonies
51.9125, 45.617333
51.1, 47.303333
51.125, 47.366667
51.1455, 47.4185
Immigration Locations
51.053205, -114.040383
38.483333, -101.35
50.656024, -109.905806
49.888056, -119.495556
38.087231, -102.62075
50.041667, -110.6775
38.433333, -99.683333
39.294167, -103.065833
38.182222, -99.10166
32.715, -117.1625
34.01, -86.010278
40.583333, -122.3666
38.364457, -98.764807
38.516667, -98.766667
34.05, -118.25
38.193333, -99.52638
37.554167, -122.313
38.633333, -98.766667
38.466667, -99.55