Georg Weber, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Aloisius, age 13; Georg, age 11; Katharina, age 8; Christian, age 5¼; Anna, age 4; Maria, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Georg Weber, his wife Catharina, and children (Jonas, age 13; Sebastian, age 11; Christian, age 5¼; Anna Elisabeth, age 4) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Jonas & Christian died in route.
Sebastian Weber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl50.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Weber came from the German region of the Pfalz.
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): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 680.
- 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): Pl50.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5405.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3162-3167.
Brent Mai