The marriage of Johannes Georg Jobocus Vielsecker, son of Johannes Georg Vielsecker, to Anna Katharina Barbara Düring, daughter of Johannes Lorenz Düring is recorded in August 1716 in the parish register of Unsere Liebe Frau (Our Lady) Catholic Church in Bamberg.
The baptism of their son Peter Philipp Joseph Vielsecker is recorded on 1 August 1727 in the parish register of St. Markus Catholic Church in Bischberg.
Philipp Vielsecker, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann Martin, age 13; Anna Margaretha, age 11; Maria Magdalena, age 9; Maria Anna, age 6; Sebastian, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg along with widow Anna Senner, his sister-in-law, and her son Johann (age 2¼).
Phill. Vilseker [sic], his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann Martin, age 15½; Anna Margretha [sic], age 12; Maria Magdalena, age 9; Maria Anna, age 7) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Maria and daughter Maria Magdalena died in route.
Itd & Rauschenbach note that this family is recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 31. This is one of the Households (No. 30-36) missing from Igor Pleve's publication of the 1767 census of Leitsinger.
When Leitsinger was destroyed in 1774, those surviving members of the family relocated to Neu-Kolonie.
Maria Anna Filsecker from Neu-Kolonie is recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg062 as the wife of Heinrich Stengel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Vielsecker came from the German region of Bamberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Vielsecker family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 728.
- 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): Sg062.
- Parish register of St. Markus Catholic Church in Bischberg.
- Parish register of Unsere Liebe Frau (Our Lady) Catholic Church in Bamberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 69.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5821.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6561-6567.
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Entry from the parish register of Unsere Liebe Frau Catholic Church in Bamberg recording the marriage of Johannes Georg Jobocus Vielsecker to Anna Katharina Barbara Düring in August 1716.
Source: Brent Mai.
Entry from the parish register of St. Markus Lutheran Church in Bischberg recording the baptism of Peter Philipp Joseph Vielsecker.
Source: Brent Mai.
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list (#5821) recording the arrival in Russia of Philipp Filsecker and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.