Jakob Weht, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Elisabeth, age 22; Johann Georg, age 18; Andreas, age 15; Barbara, age 11; Nikolaus, age 9; Anna Maria, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Jakob Weht, a farmer, his [new] wife Barbara, son Johann Georg (age 20), and [step-]children (Johannes [Schneider], age 12; Anna Maria [Schneider], age 11; Barbara [Schneider], age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 3. They had arrived in Hölzel on 13 August 1767. [See Schneider Family.]
Barbara Weht, widow of Jakob Weht, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn25.
Georg Weht and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Households No. Hz14 & Hz17.
The death of Georg Weht in 1806 is recorded on the 1811 census of Hölzel in Household No. 13.
Nikolaus Weht, presumed son of Georg Weht, is recorded on the 1811 census of Hölzel in Household No. 22.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Weht came from the German region of Franken (Franconia). The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Burghausen near Würzburg.
- 1811 Hölzel Census (Households No. 13, 22).
- 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): Bn25, Hz14, Hz17.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 216.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5066, #5069.
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