Anton Wendler, a weaver, his wife Maria, and children (Christina, age 13; Anna, age 12; Katharina, age 10; Johann, age 9; Jakob, age 8; Louisa, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Anton Wendler, his wife Louisa, and children (Christina, age 13; Anna Elisabeth, age 12; Cathrina, age 11; Friedrich, age 9; Jacob, age 8; Louisa, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the father Anton died en route.
His widow remarried to Johannes Thüringer and settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 28 along with the surviving Wendler children.
In 1780, Heinrich Wendeler moved from Ober-Monjou to Dehler.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Wendler came from the German region of the Pfalz.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Dl03, Om05, Mv2053.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 296.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4605.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5880-5887.
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