The parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic church in Hohen Sülzen records that Maria Katharina Frederika Wagner, daughter of Johannes Martin Wagner & Barbara Naass, was baptized there on 29 March 1760.
Johannes Martin Wagner died 17 April 1761.
The marriage of Johannes Philipp Distel to Barbara Naass [widow of Johannes Martin Wagner] is recorded in the parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Hohen-Sülzen on 19 April 1762. [See Wagner Family.]
Philipp Distel, a farmer, his wife Barbara, children (Julianna, age 2½; Franz, age ¼), and [step-]daughter (Katharina [Wagner], age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.
Philipp Distel, a farmer, his wife Barbara, daughter Juliana (age 4), and stepdaughter Katharina [Wagner] (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rothammel in Household No. 26. They had arrived in Rothammel on 6 September 1767.
According to the minutes of the Office for the Guardianship of Foreign Settlers dated 11 November 1775, Friedrich Gerhard requested permission to marry Philip Distel’s stepdaughter, Katharina Wagner.
Katharina Gerhard Jansen [née Wagner], widow of Friedrich Gerhard, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Franzosen in Household No. Fz23.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wagner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 735.
- 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): Fz23.
- Office for the Guardianship of Foreign Settlers, Minutes (11 November 1775).
- Parish register of St. Mauritius Catholic Church in Hohen-Sülzen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 86.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5876.
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