Jacob Wagner (age 24), a farmer, and his wife Sibilla Steubing (age 24) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Johann Jakob Wagner, a farmer, and his wife Sibilla settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 1 March 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 51 along with their 4-month-old son Christoph.
In 1938, the Georg Jakob Wagner family moved from Neu-Bauer to Gnadenfeld in the North Caucasus.
The 1765 Worms list records that Jacob Wagner came from the German village of Dillkirch (Dielkirchen?). The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Wagner came from the German village of Dierbach in the Zweibrücken region.
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