Christian Weitzeld, a single tailor (Schneider), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Christian Weitzeld is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christian Wenzel, a single tailor (Schneider), is recorded on the 1767 list of Beauregard recruits in Household No. 162 along with a note that he settled in the Volga German colony of Bettinger in 1768.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Weitzeld came from the German region of Franken (Franconia) while the 1767 census records that Christian Wenzel [sic] came from the German village of Rheinweiler.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 380.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4574.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4893.
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