Weber (Hölzel)
Widow Eva Weber and her children (Michael, age 20; Andreas, age 16; Cunigunda, age 14; Johannes, age 13; Johannes [again], age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Heinrich Sager.
The widow of Michel [sic] Weber and her children (Michael, age 20; Andreas, age 18; Johannes, age 15; Cunigunda, age 14; Johannes [again], age 13) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11.
The 1767 census records that Eva Weber came from the German village of Mühlendorf in the Bamberg region.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 111.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6166.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7670-7675.
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