The births of the following children to Johann Jacob Weyrauch & Maria Magdalena Herbst have been located: (1) Maria Susanna, born 15 August 1733 in Schöllenbach, died 28 April 1734 in Schöllenbach; (2) Georg Jacob, born 10 June 1735 in Ernsbach; (3) Eva Maria, born 15 March 1738 in Würzberg; (4) Anna Catharina, born 5 December 1741 in Würzberg, died 30 October 1744 in Schöllenbach; (5) Eva Catharina, born 27 June 1744 in Hohberg; and (6) Johann Adam, born 2 August 1748 in Schöllenbach.
Georg Jakob Weirauch, a farmer, his wife Eva Katharina, and children (Johann Friedrich, age 11; Margaretha Philippina, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard a Russian galliot named Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin.
Johann Georg Jakob Weirauch (age 33), his wife Eva Katharina (age 30), and children (Georg Friedrich, age 12; Margaretha Philippina, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwab in Household No. 30. They had arrived in Schwab on 12 September 1767.
In 1790, Jakob Weirauch and his family moved from Schwab to Dobrinka.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Georg Jakob Weirauch came from the German region of Erbach.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 655.
- 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): Db83, Sb02, Mv2675.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 133.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5260 (p.334).
Brent Mai
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Georg Jakob Weirauch and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.