Johann Phillip Wilhelm, son of Johannes Wilhelm & Susanna Charlotta Höhn, was born 1 Jul 1744 in Altenhaßlau, today a part of the town of Gelnhausen northeast of Hanau. He was baptized in the Reformed Church there. The parents had been married on 4 January 1736 in Lützelhausen, just south of Gelnhausen.
Philipp & Johannes Wilhelm are recorded on the list of immigrants by Johann Facius:
Gottlieb Wiegand was born in Herbstein, between Giessen and Fulda, on 25 October 1729. He married there on 10 February 1756 to Anna Maria Staubach. She had been born about 1737. They have 3 known children, each born in Herbstein: (1) Georg Anton, born 9 January 1757; (2) Marcus Carl, born 10 August 1761; and (3) Johann Zacharias, born 23 March 1764.
The Gelnhaar parish register records that Johann Heinrich Wiederspahn from Usenborn married on 5 August 1751 to Juliana Engel, daughter of Johannes Engel.
Johann Georg Wiedemann, son of Johann Georg Wiedemann & Anna Margaretha Fischkorn, was born on 19 January 1712 in Pfaffenhofen, southwest of Heilbronn. He married Christina Katharina Hasen, daughter of Leonhard Hasen, on 10 November 1733 in Pfaffenhofen.
Johann Jakob Würfel was born in Sinsheim (now in Baden-Württemberg) on 29 August 1725. He married on 26 August 1759 in Leimen (near Heidelberg) to Maria Barbara Blättel. She was born in Leimen on 10 November 1735.
They moved to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein). Jakob, Barbara, and several children arrived in Anton on 7 September 1764. They are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 20. Barbara later married Johann Heinrich Weisheim from Balzer.
Hans Adam Wantzerid, son of cobbler David Wantzerid & Anna Maria Gesell, was born 13 July 1700 in Schriesheim. He married 12 February 1725 in Schriesheim to Maria Klara Schneider. She had been born 31 July 1702. They had 5 children whose births are recorded in Schriesheim: (1) Ludwig Philipp, born 25 November 1725; (2) Anna Maria, born 13 October 1727; (3) Catharina, born 3 September 1730, died 13 September 1730; (4) Anna Elisabetha, born 17 October 1731, died 21 October 1731; and (5) Hans Henrich, born 5 January 1733.
Johann Weitz, a farmer, his wife Eva Katharina, and sons (Johann Heinrich, age 3; Johann, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.
They arrived in Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 19.
Johannes Weitz (age 39), his wife Katharina (age 30), and their son Johann Heinrich (age 5) are from Eichelsdorf.
Christoph Wentz, son of Jost Wentz, married on 5 February 1715 in Graben to Anna Catharina Klee, daughter of Hans Michael Klee.
Johannes Welsch, son of Johann Jakob Welsch, was born 5 December 1721 in Ölbronn. He married Maria Margaretha Kluge, daughter of Georg Balthasar Kluge, on 3 February 1750 in the Ölbronn Evangelical Church [today called Ölbronn-Dürrn]. She had been born in 1732.
They had four boys, each born in Ölbronn: (1) Johann Jakob, born 20 February 1752, baptized 21 February 1752; (2) Georg Adam, born & baptized in March 1755; (3) Johannes, born 1 February 1758; and (4) Christian Ulrich, born & baptized 29 October 1760.
There are three Weitzel families that settled in Norka. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs additional research. There is also a 4th Weitzel who traveled with them.
(1) Christoph Weitzel from Bönstadt married in Büdingen on 24 May 1766 to Gerdrauth Kessel from Leÿdecken.
Christoph & Gertrude arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.