Zacharias Weydenhammer [sic] and his wife Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Zacharias Weidenhammer, a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 7 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 33 along with his widowed mother-in-law Maria Werner (age 58).
Recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register in Household No. 116:
Zacharias Weidenhammer (age 35), cobbler (Schuster)
His wife: Maria Dorothea (age 31)
His [new] wife: Elisab. Fischof (married 29 May 1778)
Sons: Johann Gottlieb (age 7, born in Paulskaya); Johann Philipp (age ½, born in Katharinenstadt); Johann Gottfried (born 10 September 1779)
Daughters: Friderica (age 4)
Zacharias Weidenhammer from Paulskaya and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka113.
The 1767 census records that Zacharias Weidenhammer came from the German city of Leipzig. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Zacharias Weidenhammer came from Klepzig bei Leipzig in the German region of Sachsen (Saxony) and that his wife (Maria Dorothea) came from the German town of Oranienbaum in the region of Anhalt-Dessau.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register (Household No. 116).
- 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): Ka113.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 339.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1102-1103.
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