Georg Wegenstein, a cobbler, his wife Anna, and children (Andreas, age 12; Anna, age 10¼; Johann, age 8; Johannes, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander.
Georg Wegenstein died and his widow remarried to Andreas Betz.
Andreas Betz, a baker (Bäcker), his [new] wife Anna Margaretha [the widow of Georg Wegenstein], daughter Rosina (age 4-months), and [step-]children (Andreas [Wegenstein], age 14; Margaretha [Wegenstein], age 11] are recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 6. They had arrived in Dehler on 1 July 1767.
Daughter Margaretha Wegenstein is believed to have been the first wife of Heinrich Wendler.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Wegenstein came from the German region of Hanau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wegenstein family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 431.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 268.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3364.
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