Weis(s) (Hölzel)
Johann Benedictus Weiss, a son of Johann Wilibrordus Weiss & Lucia Wiolett, was baptized on 24 June 1742 in the Catholic Church of Bernkastel.
Benedictus Weise [sic] & Engula Vizum [sic] were married on 1 June 1766 in Roßlau.
Johann Benedictus Weiss and his wife Angelica Fuchs emigrated to Russia arriving from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
Benedictus Weiss and his wife Angela [sic] are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled on 11 September 1767 in the colony of Hölzel where they are recorded on 1767 census in Household No. 7.
By the time of 1798 census, Johann Benedictus, his wife Angelica and their son Christian along with his family, are still recorded in Hölzel in Household No. Hz07, but accompanying notes explain that he is serving as schoolmaster in the colony of Seelmann.
In 1790, daughter Barbara had moved to the colony of Seelmann; she is recorded there in Household No. Sm11.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Benedict Weiss was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a school teacher (Schulmeister).
The 1767 census records that Benedict Weiss came from the German village of Bernkastle in the Trier region.
- 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): Hz07.
- Mai, Brent Alan. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga, 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): #3540-3541.
- 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): #998.
- Parish records of Bernkastel (LDS Film No.585965).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 110.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6779.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7543-7544.
Corina Hirt
Brent Mai