Johann Georg Waag (abt. 1778 - bef. 1834)

Born about 1778 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Died before 1834 before about age 56 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Georg Waag was a Volga German.

Georg Waag has German Roots.

Family #33 in the 1798 Grimm census.

The family surname was originally misspelled in the 1798 census, as indicated was possible by the census translator. The correct spelling is in the 1834 census. I have added it as the current surname, but kept the Faas form of it in the last name at birth since that's how the surname is spelled in the 1798 census.

1798 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family # 33

Head of the Household Ludwig Vaas, age 47

Wife Katharina Weber Vaas, age 56

Child #1 Johann Georg Vaas, age 20

Wife of Child #1 Elisabth Ruhl, age 25, from Kraft

Child #2 Christoph Vaas, age 14

At some point between 1798 and 1834, Johann Georg Waag's two sons with Elisabeth Ruhl went to live with their uncle and aunt, Christoph and Elisabeth Waag. I searched the Grimm 1834 census for Georg and his wife, and their names do not appear. ^[2] While it's possible that they moved to another village, it would have been highly unlikely for them to do that without their sons and grandchildren, if any. It's more likely that the couple passed away and their sons, too young to live on their own, went to live with their paternal uncle. In the late 1820s, both men married and were then given households of their own.

Sources

1. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony on the Volga, Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published date: 1995; family # 33 in the 1798 Grimm census, Ludowig [sic] Vaas family.
2. ↑ 1834 Census of Grimm in the District of Saratov, Russia, dated 2 February 1835; Translated by Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Published by Dynasty Publishing, Beaverton, OR, USA; Published 2011. See page 13, the entry for family #42, his brother Christoph Waag, and Christoph's two nephews Christoph, line 425, and Heinrich, line 426. The footnotes refer to them as nephews by an unnamed brother, but Christoph Waag only had one brother, Johann Georg Waag.