Georg Frantz Wittwänger, a cabinetmaker (Schreiner) from Auerach, married on 13 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen to Dorothea Leonhard from Sprenglingen. She had been born 31 May 1737 in Sprendlingen.
Franz Wittwänger, a joiner, and his wife Anna Dorothea arrived from Lübeck on 13 September 1766 aboard the hooker Die Jungfer Dietrika under the command of Skipper Christian Korsholm.
Georg Franz Wittwänger, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Dorothea, and daughter Anna Maria (age 1) settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 58.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Wittwänger came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Georg Franz Wittwänger came from the German village of Aurach [Auerbach?] in the Württemberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Fk064.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #638.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 428.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5682.
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