Weigand(t) (Huck)

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Weigandt (Huck)
Weigand (Huck)
Вейгандъ (Huck)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Heinrich [sic] Weigandt, a farmer, his wife Katharina Charlotta, and children (Johannes, age 13; Katharina, age 9; Johann Ernst, age 2) settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767.

They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.

Dietrich [sic] Weigandt, his wife Katharina, and children (Johannes, age 20; Anna Katharina, age 16; Johann Ernst, age 9; Johann Konrad, age 6; Anna Margaretha, age 1½) are recorded on the 1775 census of Huck in Household No. 17 along with orphan Johann Jost Messer (age 15).

Dietrich [sic] Weigandt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Households No. Hk17 & Hk85.

Dietrich Weigandt and his family are recorded on the 1811 census of Huck in Household No. 17.

Descendants of Dietrich Weigandt are recorded on the 1834 census of Huck in Households No. 32, 41, 106, 120, & 125.

The 1767 census records that Heinrich [sic] Weigandt came from the German region of Isenburg.

Sources: 

- 1775 Huck Census (Household No. 17).
- 1811 Huck Census (Households No. 17, 85).
- 1834 Huck Census (Households No. 32, 41, 106, 120, 125).
- 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): Hk17, Hk85.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 140.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

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