Weber (Warenburg-2)
Martin Weber, son of Johann Christian Weber & Anna Margaretha Kraft, was born 29 April 1737 in Wembach. He married Catharina Keil.
The birth of one daughter to Martin Weber & Catharina Keil is recorded in Wembach: Elisabetha Margaretha, born 30 June 1761, died 3 July 1761.
Catharina Weber née Keil died, and Martin remarried to Maria Christina Haas.
The birth of one daughter to Martin Weber & Maria Christina Haas, widow of Johann Tilmann Haas, is recorded in Wembach: Anna Regina, born 20 December 1765.
The marriage of Martin Weber & Maria Christina Hess [sic], both from Wembach in the area of Hessen-Darmstadt, is recorded on 5 April 1766 in the City Lutheran Church of Friedberg - after the birth of their daughter.
Martin Weber, a weaver (Tuchweber), his wife Maria Christina, and daughter Anna Regina (age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Die Neue Freiheit von Bremen under the command of Skipper Steingrawer.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 144.
The 1767 census records that Martin Weber came from the German village of Wech [Wembach] in the Darmstadt region.
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Wembach [Online].
- 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): Wr109.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #302.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 343.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1987.
Brent Mai