Spelling Variations
Wagner (Köhler)*
Вагнеръ (Köhler)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Johannes Wagner, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the pink Cargo under the command of Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6 along with his sister and brother-in-law, Joseph Gareis.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wagner family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 361.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4121.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai