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Weisgerber (Katharinenstadt)

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Weisgerber (Katharinenstadt)
Вейсгерберъ (Katharinenstadt)
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Heinrich Weisgerber (age 33), a cabinetmaker (Tischler), his wife Maria Theresia née Gross (widow Hauck) (age 25), children (Johanna, age 6; Nikolaus, age 3), and step-daughter Franziska [Hauck] (age 9) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 95 along with the birth of two additional children (Franz Ferdinand, born 13 August 1774; Wilhelmina, born 1778).

Heinrich Weisgerber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka135.

The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Heinrich Weisgerber came from the German village of Hanburg bei Bertenburg and that his wife from the German village of Ragol in the Trier region.

Sources

- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 95).
- 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): Ka135.

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Brent Mai

Volga Colonies