Matthias Wilhelm Lonsinger, son of Jonathan & Anna Maria Lonsinger, was baptized on 25 September 1720 in the Pfullingen Lutheran Church.
He married Anna Barbara, and they had three children, each baptized in the Feldrennach Lutheran Church: (1) Anna Barbara, born 12 February 1748; baptized 13 February 1748; (2) Maria Barbara, born & baptized 12 November 1749; and (3) Matthias Wilhelm, born 8 September 1753; baptized 9 September 1753.
Matthias Wilhelm Lonsinger and his family immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), departing from Altona, Duchy of Holstein, on 19 July 1762 under the leadership of Georg Jakob Seiler. They arrived in the city of Flensburg, Duchy of Schleswig, on 24 July 1762.
In Denmark, the baptisms and deaths of two children born to Matheus Lonsinger & Maria Barbara Quiesner are recorded: (1) Elisabeth, baptized on 3 August 1762 in Översee Parish, died 8 May 1763 in Nordhackstedt Parish; and (2) Georg Jacob, baptized 11 June 1764 in Wallsbüll Parish, died 14 October 1765 in Översee Parish.
On 24 April 1765, the Lonsinger family is recorded on the farmstead "Dans Hof" in the Danish colony if Königsheide.
They lived in Denmark until 16 November 1765 when they joined the migrated to Russia.
They are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 37.
Son Mattias is recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm080.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 37).
- Eichhorn, Alexander; Eichhorn Jacob & Mary. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen: Steinmeier, 2012): 313, 505 (B-990), & 673.
- 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): Gm080.
- Parish register of Feldrennach (LDS Film No. 1056809).
- Parish register of Nordhackstedt [Denmark].
- Parish register of Översee [Denmark].
- Parish register of Pfullingen (LDS Film No. 1569139).
- Parish register of Wallsbüll [Denmark].
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