Spelling Variations
Weissner*
Вейзнеръ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Franz Weissner (age 39), a stocking dyer (Strümpffärber), and his wife Françoise née Vogelgefang (age 31) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 168 along with a note that they had gone to Saratov in 1775.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Franz Weissner came from the village of Strassburg and that his wife came from the Fürstenberg Grafschaft.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Weissner family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 168).
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai