Christian Wiegand, a tailor, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
Christoph [sic] Wigand [sic], his wife Maria, and son Johann Christoph (age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that son Johann Christoph died en route.
Johann Christian Weigandt [sic], a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Susanna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 18.
In 1788, Christian Wiegandt and his family moved from Katharinenstadt to Schulz.
Heinrich Wiegand from Katharinenstadt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinhard in Household No. Rh27 along with a note that Heinrich Wiegandt is living in the colony of Biberstein where he is serving as schoolmaster.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Wiegand came from the German region of Gekenburg. The 1767 census records that Johann Christian Weigandt [sic] came from the German village of Schleusingen near Gekenburg.
- 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): Rh27, Mv1194.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 165.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4302.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4995-4997.
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