Johann Philipp Wegner, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Philip Wagner [sic], his wife Juliane, and son Heinrich (age 19) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. [Philipp Wagner is not old enough to have a son who is 19 years old. His relationship to this Heinrich is unknown, but it cannot be father-son.]
Philipp Wagner [sic], his farmer, his [new] wife Julianna, and step-daughter Elisabeth Schnell (age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 27. They had settled in Paulskaya on 7 June 1767.
In 1788, Andreas Wagner [sic] moved from Paulskaya to Susannental.
Johannes Andreas Wegener [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Susannental in Household No. Ss08.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Philipp Wagner came from the German village of Usingen.
[Many sources cite this surname as Wagner, but subsequent generations use the surname of Wegner.]
- 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): 211.
- 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): Ss08, Mv2217.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 337.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1461.
Brent Mai