Johann Conrad Weissbender (abt. 1736)

Born about 1736 in Dreieichenhain, Hessen, Germany

Husband of Maria (Unknown) Weissbender — married [date unknown] in Germany

Husband of Eva Martha (Unknown) Weissbender — married 1766 in Russia

Died [date unknown] in Volga Region, Russia

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Biography

Johann Conrad Weissbender was a Volga German.

Johann Conrad Weissbender has German Roots.

Family #59 in the 1767 Grimm census.

Conrad/Konrad Weissbender was born in 1735 Dreieichenhain, Hessen, Germany. He was the son of Johann Georg Weissbender and Ursula Stroh.

Birth Record ^[1]

Name: Johann Conrad Weissbender

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 24 Mrz 1737 (24 Mar 1737)

Baptism Date: 26 Mrz 1737 (26 Mar 1737)

Baptism Place: Dreieichenhain, Hessen, Germany

Father: Johann Georg Weissbender

Mother: Ursula Stroh

FHL Film Number: 1272820

Before emigrating from Germany, Konrad married Maria, last name at birth unknown for now; the couple had no children at the time that they immigrated to Russia, although they may have had children who didn't survive before they decided to immigrte to Russia. According to the Kulberg Reports, the couple traveled on document number 5028, accompanied by his mother Ursula. His father was probably deceased. ^[2]

Both the Kulberg Reports and the 1767 Grimm census say that Conrad Weissbender told input takers that he was from Isenburg. I looked up the two towns on googlemaps.com and found the two locations are just 84 miles apart. ^[3]

They arrived on 29 August 1766 on the ship Apollo, and after being processed in St. Petersburg, the trio were sent to Oranienbaum where they would reside in barrack-type housing through the winter.^[2]

Conditions were rough and many people did not survive. It appears that first wife Maria is one of the people who did not survive either the winter in Oranienbaum or the harsh journey to the Volga River. By August of 1767, when the next census was taken, Konrad had remarried to a woman named Eva Martha. He must have married her either back in Oranienbaum, before the journey east, or shortly after arriving in Grimm in early July of 1767. His second wife is named in the 1767 census.

1767 Grimm Census ^[4]

Family # 59

Head of the Household Konrad Weissbinder, age 31, Lutheran craftsman from Isenburg

Wife Eva Martha Weissbinder, age 35

Mother Ursula Weissbinder, age 56

Konrad Weissbender is not named in the 1775 Grimm census. He may have moved to the Village of Müller, where he was counted in the 1798 census. By that year, neither Eva Martha nor his mother Ursula are named as living with him and his family. He had remarried for a third time to the widow Anna Barbara Schmidt Schneider. Living with the couple were three of her children with deceased Johann Georg Schneider and her grandchildren.

1798 Grimm Census ^[5]

Family # Ml34

Head of the Household Johann Konrad Weissbender [JKW], age 61, from Grimm

Wife Anna Barbara Schmidt Schneider Weissbender, age 55, deceased husband Johann Georg Schneider

Child #1 Johann Georg Schneider, age 30, son of deceased Johann Georg Schneider, step-son of JKW

Wife of Child #1 Anna Elisabeth Weinbender [sic], age 27

Grandchild #1 Johann Georg Schneider, age 5

Grandchild #2 Johann Konrad Schneider, age 6 months

Grandchild #3 Maria Margaretha Schneider, age 3

Child #2 Abel Schneider, age 19, son of deceased Johann Georg Schneider, step-son of JKW

Child #3 Anna Barbara Schneider, age 17, son of deceased Johann Georg Schneider, step-son of JKW

Research Notes

Probable birth record for his father:

Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898

Name: Johann Georg Weissbender

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 14 Jun 1717

Baptism Date: 17 Jun 1717

Baptism Place: Dreieichenhain, Hessen, Germany

Father: Hanss Georg Weissbender

Mother: Magdalene

FHL Film Number: 1272820

Sources

1. ↑ Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Johann Conrad Weissbender, born 24 March 1737 in Dreieichenhain, Hessen, Germany. Ancestry.com. Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Pleve, Igor. List of Colonists to Russia in 1766, "Reports by Ivan Kulberg," Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Saratov State Technical University; Published in Saratov, Russia 2010; page 320, Conrad Weissbender, Lutheran farmer from Isenburg, document number 5028, wife: Maria; mother Ursula.
3. ↑ Googlemaps, googlemaps.com, distance between Dreieichenhain and Isenburg, Germany.
4. ↑ Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Band 2, Herausgegeben von Alfred Eisfeld under Mitarbeit von Sabine Eichwald, Published by the Nordost-Instsitut - 38085 Göttingen, 2005; page 81, family #59, Konrad Weissbinder family.
5. ↑ Mai, Brent Alan; 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga, Volumes 1 & 2; American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska; Published 1999 and 2005; page 740, family #Ml34, Johannes Konrad Weissbender.