Franz Waas, a stocking maker, his wife Anna, and children (Alexander [Castelli], age 19; Christoph [Castelli], age 16¼; Carolius, age 11; Henricus, age 9; Eva, age 6½; Anna, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johann Franz Wase, his wife Anna Catharina, and children (Alexander [Castelli], age 19; Christoph [Castelli], age 16; Heinrich, age 11; Carolus, age 9; Eva, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Franz Wens [sic], a stocking maker (Strumpfwirker), his wife Katharina, children (Heinrich, age 11; Karl, age 7; Eva, age 5), stepsons [surname Castelli] (Alexander, age 22; Christoph, age 17), and orphans Susanna Christina (age 11) & Elisabeth (age 5) Bruschner are recorded on the list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 109) that is attached to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
In 1780, Karl Waas moved from Ober-Monjou to Katharinenstadt. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] records in Household No. 75 that Karl Waas married Maria Magdalena née Seipel (the widow of Jakob Staab).
Karl Waas from Ober-Monjou and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka075.
The death of Karl Waas in 1833 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 224.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Waas came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Franz Wens [sic] came from the German village of Oberelbert in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 75).
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 224).
- 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): 682.
- 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): Ka075, Mv2055.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 370.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5424.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6994-7000.
Brent Mai