Welsch (Seelmann)

Peter Welsch, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Michael, age 8; Kunigunda, age 5; Barbara, age 3½; Margaretha, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Heinrich Sager.

Peter Welsch, his wife Anna, and children (Michel [sic], age 9; Cunigunda, age 6; Barbara, age 5) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Peter Welsch, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Margaretha, age 16; Johann Michael, age 13; Maria Kunigunda, age 8; Anna Barbara, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 69. They had settled there on 5 September 1767.

Heinrich & Bonifacius Welsch, sons of Peter Welsch, are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm19.

Heinrich Wilhelm and Bonifacius Welsch and his son are recorded on the 1811 census of Seelmann in Household No. 19 along with a note that Heinrich Wilhelm had relocated to Neu-Kolonie in 1809.

Heinrich Welsch from Seelmann is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 5 along with a note that he had arrived in Neu-Kolonie from Seelmann in 1809.

The 1767 census records that Peter Welt came from the German village of Demmelsdorf in the Bamberg region.