Joseph Weimann, a farmer, and his wife Dorothea arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Joseph Weymann [sic], his wife Dorothea, and newborn son Anthon [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Joseph Weimann, a miller (Müller), and his wife Maria [sic] are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census.
Joseph Weimann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz32.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Weimann came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Joseph Weimann came from the German village of Netzing.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 500.
- 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): Lz32.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 360.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3924.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5722-5724.
Brent Mai