Weltz (Schilling)
Philipp Weltz and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1775 census of the Volga German colony of Schilling in Household No. 85 along with his daughter (Barbara, age 1½) and stepsons Christian Schargenus (age 7½) and Ambrosius Schargenus (age 5). Katharina is the widow of Johann Schargenus with whom she had arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Researcher "Habermann" on the forum of wolgadeutsche.net reports that Barbara, daughter of Johann Philipp Wels & Katharina Roth, was born in Schilling on 12 September 1774.
- 1775 Census of Schilling (No. 85).
- ГИАНП, Ф.263 Оп.2 Д.1, стр.30.
- 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): Sg085.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1665.
Brent Mai