Valentin Wiegener, a farmer, his wife Maria Regina, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 11; Johann Georg, age 7; Maria Katharina, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 28. They had settled there on 1 July 1767.
Georg Wiegener from Dietel is recorded on the 1798 census of Degott in Household No. Dg06 along with a note that he is with his family in Bauer.
Georg Wiegner from Degott and his sons (Johann Peter, age 17; Johannes, age 14; Christian, age 9) are recorded on the 1811 census of Sewald in Household No. 9 along with a note that he arrived in Sewald from Degott in 1801.
The death of Georg Wiegner in 1827 is recorded on the 1834 census of Sewald in Household No. 65.
The 1767 census records that Valentin Wiegener came from the German village of Minirzel [?] in the Kurpfalz region.
- 1811 Sewald Census (Household No. 9).
- 1834 Sewald Census (Households No. 65, 66).
- 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): Dg06.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 290, 296.
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