Joseph Wilhelmi, a cooper (Fassbinder), his wife Amalia Friedrika, and son Michael Friedrich (age 8-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 28. They had arrived there on 27 August 1766.
Joseph Wilhelmi (age 27), a cooper (Böttcher), his wife Amalia Friederika [surname not recorded] (age 26), and children (Michael Friedrich, age 8; Andreas, age 6; Katharina, age 3; Christina [age not recorded]) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 122.
Son [Michael] Friedrich Wilhelmi and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka116.
His sons and their families are recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Households No. 18, 227, 291, & 319.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Wilhelmi came from the German village of Konstanz in the Schwaben (Swabia) region and that his wife came from the village of Stadthagen in Luxembourg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Joseph Wilhelmi came from the German village of Kostantza [sic] am Bordensee and that his wife came from the village of Stadthagen in Luxembourg.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 122).
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 18, 227, 291, 319).
- 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): Ka116.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 282.
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