Marx [sic] Langmacher & Margaretha Janssen were married 16 June 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Max Langmacher, a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a Danish galliot named Der Engel Rafael (Archangel Raphael) under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 11 August 1767. His wife died during the transport of Lieutenant Riessmann. He remarried to Wibke Krus, the widow of Jakob Krus. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 68 & 69.
Nikolaus Heinrich Langmacher, presumed son of Max Langmacher, is recorded on the 1798 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. St17.
Nikolaus Heinrich Langmacher is recorded on the 1834 census of Stahl am Tarlyk as Klaus Heinrich Langmacher in Household No. 98.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Max Langmacher came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Markus [Max?] Langmacher came from the German village of Heist in the region of Holstein.
- 1834 Stahl am Tarlyk Census (Households No. 20, 98).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 445.
- 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): St17.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #96.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 219.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3471.
Brent Mai