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Wolffanger (Did Not Arrive)*

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Wolffanger (Did Not Arrive)*
Вольффангеръ (Did Not Arrive)*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Georg Wolffanger, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Jakob (6-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.

Georg Wolffanger, his wife Anna, and son Jacob (age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that all of them died in route.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5928.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6377-6379.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies