Weidemann (Frank)
Johannes Weidemann, son of Andreas Weidemann & Anna Barbara Föller, was born 18 September 1734 in Ilbeshausen, Darmstadt, Germany. His lineage can be traced to Conrad Weydemann, born about 1640, of Audra, Eichsfeld, Germany.
Johann Weidemann and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Johannes under the command of Skipper Stahl.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 64.
- 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): Fk012.
- Parish records of Ilbeshausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 429.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6362.
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