Wirth (Dehler)
Spelling Variations:
Wirth (Dehler)
Виртъ (Dehler)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Anton Wirth, a weaver, and his wife arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Seelender.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42 along with a note that Anton had died 12 September 1767.
The 1767 census records that Maria Magdalena Wirth came from the German village of Wernborn in the Kurmainz region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 275.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3357.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai