Georg Weber, a farmer, his wife Ursula, son Konrad (age 5¼), and wife's sister Anna [surname not recorded] (age 26) arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Гданьская Надежда (Gdansk Hope) under the command of Skipper Johann Erdmann Geske.
Georg Weber, a farmer, his wife Ursula, and her sister Anna Maria Just settled in the Volga German colony of Messer on 15 November 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 32.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Weber came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Georg Weber came from the German region of Kurpfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Weber family among the Volga German colonies.
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