Johan Hinr. Weber, a tailor (Schneider) from the area of Darmstadt, & Anna Cathar. Schleegel [sic] from the county of Isenburg were married on 21 May 1766 in Pastor Peterssen's house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann Heinrich Weber, a farmer, and his wife Anna Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Karaman on 10 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Weber came from the German village of Homburg in the Darmstadt region.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #226.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 196.
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