Hieronÿmus Weisheim from Rimbach in the area of Cölln [sic] & Anna Margaretha Götz from Lieblos were married on 26 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Eremeus Weisheim, a gardner (Gärtner), and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Köhler on 21 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 90.
Their daughter Sophia is recorded on the 1798 census of Köhler in Household No. Kl02 along with her brother Zacharias.
The death of Zacharias Weisheim in 1829 is recorded on the 1834 census of Köhler in Household No. 2.
The 1767 census records that Eremeas Weisheim came from the German region of Bonn.
- 1834 Köhler Census (Household No. 2).
- 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): Kl02.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #667.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 382.
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