Michael Waldheuser, a joiner (Tischler), his wife Kunigunda, son Philipp (age 1¼), and [step-]daughter Kunigunda (age 16¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Michael Waldheuser (age 30), a joiner (Tischler), his wife Appolonia (age 30), son Philipp (age 2), and step-daughter Kunigunda Seifert (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 38. They had arrived in Ober-Monjou on 5 March 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Waldheuser came from the German region of Würzburg. The 1767 census records that Michael Waldheuser came from the German village of Gerolzhofen in the region of Würzburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Waldheuser family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 57.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 298.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #100.
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