Spelling Variations
Weig*
Вейгъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Adam Weig, a linen weaver (Leineweber), his wife Christina, and sons (Jakob, age 20; Philipp, age 9) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 103) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Adam Weig came from the German village of Westerburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Weig family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 369.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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