Georg Jakob Nestlauler [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Anna, age 18; Magdalena, age 15¼; Margaretha, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Magdalena Weslauer (age 19) and her [new] husband Johann Georg Gottfried (age 20) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hildmann in Household No. 8. They had arrived in Hildmann on 14 May 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Jakob Nestlauler came from the German region of Pfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Weslauer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 79.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 99.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #265.
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