Ludwig Wagner, a turner, his wife Johanna, and son Christian (age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
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.
Widower Christian Ludwig Wegner [sic] and his son Christian (age 22) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 167 along with a note that they went to Moscow in 1775.
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. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that he came from the German village of Köthen in the region of Anhalt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wagner family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 167).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 198.
- 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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