Nikolaus Weiche [sic], a single cobbler, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Nicolaus Welschke is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Nikolaus Wesch, a single cobbler (Schuhmacher), settled in the Volga German colony of Stephan on 24 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Shcherbakovka in 1768.
Nikolaus Wesch from Stephan is recorded on the 1798 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. Sv40.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Weiche [sic] came from the German region of Prussia. The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Wesch came from the German village of Quedlinburg.
[Sometimes the descendants of this family and those of the Weiss family have been conflated, but they are two separate families.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 745.
- 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): Sv40.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 228.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5955.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6355.
Brent Mai