Weber (Grimm-4)

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Weber (Grimm-4)
Веберъ (Grimm-4)
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Johann Conrad Weber, son of Joseph Weber & Anna Elisabeth Keil, was born 10 August 1719 in Nieder-Ohmen and baptized there on 13 August 1719.

Johann Conrad Weber married in Nieder-Ohmen on 20 April 1741 to Anna Elisabetha Hönig, daughter of Johannes Hönig & Magdalena Schmitt. Anna Elisabetha Hönig had been born in Nieder-Ohmen on 18 October 1721 and baptized there on 20 October 1721.

The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Conrad Weber & Anna Elisabetha Hönig are recorded in the parish register of Nieder-Ohmen: (1) Maria Catharina, born 19 May 1742, baptized 20 May 1742; (2) Johannes, born 5 September 1744, baptized 6 September 1744; (3) Anna Maria, born 19 May 1748, baptized 20 May 1748; (4) Johann Henrich, born 2 October 1751; (5) unnamed daughter, stillborn 26 August 1754; (6) Johannes Weber, born 17 August 1757, baptized 18 August 1757; and (7) Johann Georg, born 15 July 1760, baptized 16 July 1760, died 2 March 1762.

Oldest son Johannes Weber from Nieder Ohmen & Anna Catharina Scheffer [sic] from Kesselbach were married on 20 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.

Konrad Weber, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Maria, age 24; Anna, age 21; Johann [Heinrich], age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the pink Lev under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov along with son Johann[es], a cobbler, and his wife Anna.

Johannes Weber and his wife Katharina [Schäfer] are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 87.

They are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm163.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that father Konrad Weber came from the German region of Darmstadt and that son Johann[es] Weber came from the German region of Isenburg.

Sources: 

- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 87).
- Henkel, Hans. Ortsfamilienbuch Nieder-Ohmen [Online]
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Gm163.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #563.
- Parish register of Nieder-Ohmen.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2342, #2355.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies