Kaspar Weber, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna, age 23; Julianna, age 20; Anna Maria, age 11; Anna Elisabeth, age 7; Johann Heinrich, age 4) 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.
Anna Maria Weber, widow of an unnamed farmer, and her children (Juliana, age 18; Anna Maria, age 11; Anna Elisabeth, age 8; Johann Heinrich, age 5) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schulz in Household No. 20. They had settled there on 13 June 1767. Oldest daughter Anna is recorded on the 1767 census of Schulz in Household No. 21 married to Johannes Lehning.
Son Johann Heinrich Weber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schulz in Household No. Sz10.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Weber came from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that Anna Maria Weber came from the German region of Stolberg.
- 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): 263.
- 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): Sz10.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 124.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1895.
Judy Kaland
Brent Mai