Widower Johann Christoph Weigand, a farmer, and his daughter Anna Maria (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin.
Johann Christ. Weigand and his daughter Anna Maria (age 4 [perhaps 9]) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christoph Weigandt, a farmer, his [new] wife Maria Barbara, and daughter Anna Maria (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 68. They had arrived in Pfeifer on 20 August 1767.
Johannes, Jakob, and Philipp Weigandt, presumed sons of Christoph & Maria Barbara Weigandt, are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf14 along with a note that Jakob is working in the colony of Semenovka.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Weigandt came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Christoph Weigandt came from the German village of Groß Steinum in the Mainz region.
[According to the Meyer's Gazetteer, there is only one Groß Steinum (or any Steinum) that has existed in what today is Germany. This Groß Steinum is today located in Niedersachsen and has never been part of Mainz or included in the Archdiocese of Mainz. Groß Steinum is also a Protestant village, so it is unlikely that this Weigand family came from there. Rather, it is more probable that the village is Groß-Steinheim (often called locally by the name Steinum) which was under the jurisdiction of the Electorate of Mainz from 1624 to 1803. Today, Groß-Steinheim is a neighborhood of the city of Hanau.]
- 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): Pf14.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 394.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5266 (p.334).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2714-2715.
Brent Mai
Patrick Weigant
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Johann Christoph Weigand and his daughter Anna Maria.
Source: Brent Mai
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