Johann Conrad Stromberger, son of Georg Stromberger (1667 - 16 March 1733) and Anna Katharina Hartmann (18 September 1670 - 10 September 1736) was born 24 June 1698 in Spachbrücken, Dieburg, Hessen-Darmstadt. He married in Spachbrücken on 27 April 1730 to Anna Elisabeth Kopp, daughter of Johann Nikolaus Kob/Koop and Elisabeth Barbara Stochard. She was born 20 August 1709 in Reinheim.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Conrad Stromberger & Anna Elisabeth Kopp are recorded in the parish register of Spachbrücken: (1) Johann Nicolaus, born 6 February 1731, died 2 July 1731; (2) Anna Dorothea, born 11 June 1732, died 22 November 1793 [in Glücksburg]; (3) Maria Catharina, born 12 March 1734, died 16 July 1746; (4) Johann Conrad, born 11 December 1735, died 3 May 1738; (5) Anna Elisabetha, born 8 August 1737, died 22 April 1738; (6) Johann Georg, born 10 October 1738; (7) Georg Nicolaus, born 14 February 1740, died 4 November 1741; (8) Elisabetha, born 28 January 1742, died 13 November 1744; (9) Anna Catharina, born 1 February 1743; (10) Eva Catharina, born 5 July 1744; (11) Maria Elisabetha, born 1 March 1746, died 12 June 1746; (12) Eva Catharina, born 5 July 1744; (13) Maria Elisabetha, born 1 March 1746, died 12 June 1746; (14) Susanna Elisabetha, born 6 September 1747, died 15 August 1750; (15) Johann Dietrich, born 8 May 1749, died 7 March 1752; and (16) Johann Adam, born 29 March 1753, died 12 May 1757.
Johann Conrad Stromberger, his wife Anna Elisabeth Kopp, son Johann Georg (and his family), and daughter Anna Dorothea (wife of Johann Adam Meier) migrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 9 June 1762. They eventually settled in the Danish colony of Neubörm with the senior Strombergers living with their daughter and son-in-law Johann Adam Meier.
In 1766, they joined the migration to Russia.
They arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum Russia on 9 August 1766 aboard the ship Strelna. [This information is reported by Dr. Igor Plehve, but the Stromberger family does not appear on the Oranienbaum passenger list of the Strelna on 9 August 1766.] Immigrating with them was their son Johann Georg Stromberger [child No.6].
Anna Katharina Stromberger [child No. 9] married Conrad Queissner Conrad. Eva Katharina [child No. 10] married Jakob Andreas. Both of these families also settled in Dönhof.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dönhof on 21 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 27 & 28.
The Eichhorns record that Johann Conrad Stromberger came from the Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Conrad Stromberger came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1092, B-1675, B-1676.
- Kohl, Gunnar and Helmut Ramge. Familienbuch Spachbrücken (Darmstadt: Deutsche Ortssippenbücher, 2001): 484-485.
- 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): Dh069, Dh091.
- Ortsfamilienbuch Spachbruecken [Online].
- Parish records of Spackbrücken (LDS Film #1190550).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 348.
Joan Hepperlen
Brent Mai