Weber

Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Groß-Bieberau, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hessen, Germany
Description

Georg Konrad Weber was born 6 December 1732 in Gross-Bieberau. He married on 11 April 1754 in Ober-Ramstadt to Susanna Maria Schmidt. She was born 12 May 1727 in Hottenbach.

At some point, they moved to Wembach from which they immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), arriving there on 27 September 1760 and settling the the colony of Julianaheede. They remained in Denmark until 7 January 1765 when they departed for Russia.

They settled in Russia in the Volga German colony of Beideck where they are recorded on the 1775 Census in Household No. 7. Konrad and his family moved to the colony of Laub , and are recorded there on the 1798 Census in Household No. Lb09.

Sources

- 1775 Census of Beideck.
- Eichhorn, Alexander and Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The immigration of German colonists to Denmark and their subsequent emigration to Russia in the years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Steinmeier, 2012): 636.
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga .
- 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).

Researchers
Gerhard Lang
Brent Mai