Bernhard Montur [?] Wagner, his wife Anna, and children (Johanna, age 3; Jakob, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Bernhardt Wagener [sic], his [new?] wife Dorothea, and children (Johanna, age 3; Caspar, age 1½; Anna Christina, born in route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both Caspar and newborn Anna Christina died in route.
It is not known in which colony this Wagner family settled.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wagner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 838.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6750 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4140-4144.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Bernhard Wagner and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.