Jakob Wad [sic], a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Elisabeth, age 22; Johann Georg, age 18; Andreas, age 15; Barbara, age 11; Nikolaus, age 9; Anna Maria, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Jakob Weht, a farmer, his [new] wife Barbara, son Johann Georg (age 20), and [step-]children (Johannes [Schneider], age 12; Anna Maria [Schneider], age 11; Barbara [Schneider], age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 3. They had arrived in Hölzel on 13 August 1767. [See Schneider Family.]
Barbara Weht, widow of Jakob Weht, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn25.
Georg Weht and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Households No. Hz14 & Hz17.
The death of Georg Weht (age 67) of Hölzel is recorded in December 1806 [exact date is illegible] in the parish register of Preuss.
The death of Georg Weht in 1806 is recorded on the 1811 census of Hölzel in Household No. 13.
Nikolaus Weht, presumed son of Georg Weht, is recorded on the 1811 census of Hölzel in Household No. 22.
The death of Nikolaus Wett in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Hölzel in Household No. 18.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Weht came from the German region of Franken (Franconia). The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Burghausen near Würzburg.
- 1811 Hölzel Census (Households No. 13, 22).
- 1834 Hölzel Census (Households No. 18, 25, 49, 57, 69).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 631-632.
- 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): Bn25, Hz14, Hz17.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 216.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5066, #5069.
Brent Mai