Michael Wergner [sic], a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Martin, age 12; Andreas, age 10; Michael, age 8; Johanna [sic], age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Michael Wagner [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Martin, age 13; Andreas, age 10; Michael, age 8; Rosine, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that wife Elisabeth died en route. [Since 2 of the surviving children are recorded living with their stepfather in 1767, it might be that the father Michael died rather than Elisabeth. Additional research is necessary to clear up this discrepancy.]
Johann Martin Wegner (age 12) and his sister Rosina (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 1 along with their stepfather Johann Gottfried Koch.
Orphan Andreas Wegner (age 10) is recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 29 along with the Johann Heinrich Jäger family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Wegner and Jäger families.
Orphan Johann Michael Wegner (age 8) is recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 7 along with Christoph Reisegerste and his wife. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Wegner and Reisegerste families.
Martin Wegner from Boisroux is recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka073.
The death of Martin Wegner in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 118.
Rosina Missler née Wegner and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl46.
The 1767 census does not record from where these Wegner children came.
Some translations have recorded this surname as Wagner.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 118).
- 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): Ka073, Pl46.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 139, 141, 146.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #1296.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0620-0625.
Brent Mai
Waldemar Kurt
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Michael Wergner [sic] and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.
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