Wiesner (Schwab)
Weigand Wiesner & Maria Ursula Diehl were married on 19 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
[Johann] Weigand Wiesner and his wife Maria [Ursula] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Schwab on 8 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.
In 1794, widower Weigand Wiesner and his children moved from Schwab to Galka.
Philipp Wiesner is recorded on the 1850 census of Galka in Household No. 211 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Kraft in 1835.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Weigand Wiesner was a farmer from the German region of Friedeburg. The 1767 census records that he was a saddle maker (Sattler) from the German village of Rodenbach.
- 1850 Galka Census (Households No. 21, 96, 97, 142, 150, 211).
- 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): Gk48, Sb25, Mv2684.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #449.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 131.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2658.
Brent Mai