Susanna [widow of Andreas Wilberger] and her son Jakob [Wilberger] (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus under the command of Skipper Johann Graap along with her sister Barbara and brother-in-law Mattias Lütger. [See Lütger Family.]
Peter Breitinger (age 28), his daughter Maria Barbara (age 4), his [new] wife Susanna [widow Wilberger] (age 28), and her son Jakob [Wilberger] (age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 29. They had arrived in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767. [See Breitinger Family.]
Jakob Wilberger, son of the deceased Andreas Wilberger, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se10 along with his step-father Peter Breitinger and his [new] wife Gertruda Kleb [sic].
Jakob Wilberger and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se10.
The death of Jakob Wilberger is recorded in the parish register of Semenovka on 14 March 1840 at the age of 78.
- 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): 734.
- 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): Se10, Mv2274.
- Parish register of Semenovka.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 185.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5870.
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