Heinrich Weber, a farmer, his wife Christina, and children (Konrad & Katharina) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Heinrich Weber, a farmer, and his wife Christina Helena settled in the Volga German colony of Moor on 18 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Weber came from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Weber came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Weber family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 262.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 167.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1879.
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