Weber (Rohleder-1)

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Weber (Rohleder-1)
Веберъ (Rohleder-1)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

There are two Weber families that settled in the Volga German colony of Rohleder on 14 June 1766.  The 1767 census records that both of them came from the German village of Zuckau near Danzig, but their relationship to each other is not recorded.

(1) Gerhardt Weber (age 40), a farmer, and his family are recorded on the 1767 Rohleder census in Household No. 2.

(2) Thomas Weber (age 18), a single farmer, is recorded on the 1767 Rohleder census in Household No. 41.

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): Rl27.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 47, 57

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

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