Weibrig
Spelling Variations:
Weibrig
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Georg Weibrig, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou and are recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Om41.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Weibrig came from the German village of Bassenheim.
Sources:
- 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): Om41.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5430.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai