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 arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
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.
In 1790, daughter Barbara had moved to the colony of Seelmann; she is recorded there on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm11.
Johann Benedictus Weis, his wife Angelica and their son Christian along with his family, are recorded on the 1798 census of Hölzel in Household No. Hz07 along with a note that he is serving as schoolmaster in the colony of Seelmann.
Benedictus Weis, his son Christian, and grandson Johann [Nikolaus] are recorded on the 1811 census of Hölzel in Household No. 5.
Benedictus Weis must have died between 1811 & 1816.
The death of Christian Weis in 1831 is recorded on the 1834 census of Hölzel in Household No. 56.
Nikolaus Weis and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Hölzel in Household No. 96.
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.
- 1811 Hölzel Census (Household No. 5).
- 1834 Hölzel Census (Household No. 56).
- 1850 Hölzel Census (Household No. 96).
- 1857 Hölzel Census (Household No. 111).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 855.
- 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, Sm11.
- 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 register 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