Paul Weigel, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Margaretha, age 13; Christoph, age 8; Anna, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
Paul Weigel, a farmer, and his surviving son Christoph (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Pfeifer in Household No. 7. They arrived in Pfeifer on 15 June 1767.
Christoph Weigel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf67.
Kaspar Weigel from Pfeifer and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 23.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Paul Weigel came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that he came from the village of Aschaffenburg.
- 1834 Pfeifer Census (Households No. 68, 69, 117, 118).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 23).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 317.
- 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): Pf67.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 379.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2336.
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