Ludwig Wagner, a turner, his wife Johanna, and son Christian (age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Lud. Wegner [sic], his wife Johanna, and son Christian (age 12) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johanna died in route.
Widower Christian Ludwig Weginer [sic], a turner (Dreher), and his son Christian Ludwig (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 170. They had settled there on 7 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Wagner came from the German region of Köthen. The 1767 census records that Christian Ludwig Weginer [sic] came from the German village of Köthen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wagner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 311.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1346.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1141-1143.
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