Kaspar Wiesner and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They are recorded on the 1775 census of the Volga German colony of Schilling in Household No. 87 along with their children (Katharina, age 6½; Johann Peter, age 4; Anna Elisabeth, age ¼).
In 1790, Peter Wiesner moved from Schilling to Fischer.
Peter Wiesner from Schilling and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Fischer in Household No. Fs23.
Peter Wiesner and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Fischer in Household No. 46.
Katharina Wiesner and her illegitimate daughter are recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg094 along with a note that Katharina is working in the colony of Kukkus.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Wiesner was a farmer while the 1775 census records that he was a tailor.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Kaspar Wiesner came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Schilling Census (Household No. 87).
- 1834 Fischer Census (Household No. 46).
- 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): 226.
- 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): Fs23, Sg094, Mv2561.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1603.
Brent Mai