Johannes Weber, son of Georg Weber & Anna Catharina Schlag, was born 24 May 1719 in Gedern.
He married there on 21 May 1744 to Anna Catharina Ackermann from Dorheim.
The births/baptisms of the children of Johannes Weber & Anna Catharina Ackermann are recorded in the parish register of Gedern: (1) Catharina Christina, baptized 9 January 1746, died 11 January 1747; (2) Johann Christian, born 26 November 1747, baptized 28 November 1747, died 7 January 1748; (3) Johann Gottfried, born 18 November 1748, baptized 20 November 1748; (4) Anna Elisabeth, born 18 July 1751, baptized 20 July 1751, died 16 November 1759; (5) Johann Georg, born 3 May 1754, baptized 5 May 1754; and (6) Johann Jakob, born & baptized 1 November 1756.
Johann[es] Weber, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and sons (Gottfried, age 18; Johann, age 13; Jakob, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax along with servant Christoph Landmann (age 19¼).
They settled in the Volga German colony of Reinwald on 24 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Weber came from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Weber came from the German village of Gedern in the Stolberg region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 226-227.
- 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): Rw47.
- Parish register of Gedern.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 44.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1606.
Brent Mai
Victor 2 & Galena from the Forum of Wolgadeutsche.net