Bartholomeus Welsenbach, a fisherman (Fischer) from Franckenland [sic], married on 29 July 1766 in Pastor Bruns's house in Lübeck to Anna Elisabeth Schultz from Franckeland [sic]. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Bartolomeus Welzenbach, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Margaretha (age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Bartholomeus Weltzebach, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Margretha (age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Orphan Margaretha Welzenbach (age 13), daughter of the deceased Bartel Welzenbach, arrived in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767 and is recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 23 along with the Michael Flanz family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Welzenbach and Flanz families.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that this Welzenbach family came from the German region of Franken (Franconia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family Welzenbach among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 782.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. 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): #7413-7414.
- 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): #273.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 183.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6262.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8527-8529.
Brent Mai