Weber (Kukkus)

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Weber (Kukkus)
Веберъ (Kukkus)
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Pre-Volga Origin: 
Discussion & Documentation: 

Jakob Weber, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 9; Peter, age 7; Katharina, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.

Jacob Weber, his wife Catarina, and children (Johann Georg, age 10; Johann Peter, age 9; Catarina Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Catarina died en route.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 26 June 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.

The 1767 census records that Jakob Weber came from the German village of Ulm near Braunfels.

Sources: 

- 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): Kk27.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 470.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3570.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2348-2352.

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Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies