Kaspar Wagner, a baker (Bäcker), arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 107 along with his [new] wife Margaretha née Klein and sister-in-law Julianna [Klein] (age 9). [See Klein Family.]
Kaspar Wagner (age 31), a baker (Bäcker), his wife Margaretha née Klein (age 41), and daughter Katharina (age ¼) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 125.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Kaspar Wagner came from the town of Vienna in Austria and that Margaretha Klein came from the German village of Schierstein near Usingen.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 125).
- 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): Ka119.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 299.
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