Johann Weberling, a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Wilhelm Weberling, a carpenter (Zimmermann), his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Anna Christina are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 5. They had settled there on 12 May 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Weberling came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Weberling came from the German village of Furmal [?] in the Hannover region.
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Brent Mai