Samuel Wiedlein, his wife Maria Magdalena, and son Johann (age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Samuel Wiedlein, his wife Maria Magdalena, and son Jost Georg (born in route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the newborn Jost Georg died in route.
Samuel Wiedlein, a mason (Maurer), and his wife Magdalena are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 38. They had arrived in Paulskaya on 17 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Samuel Wiedlein came from the German village of Maschbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family 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): 829.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 359.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6642.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4064-4066.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Samuel Wiedlein and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.