Hans Georg Lapp, a day laborer (Tagelöhner) arrived in Flensburg, Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), on 12 June 1762. Hans Georg was a servant of Georg Heinrich.
The marriage of Hans Georg Lapp & Agnese Kentzmann is recorded in the parish register of Grundhof [Denmark] on 8 October 1762.
They swore allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 7 October 1762.
On 1 October 1764, they are recorded in the Danish colony of Westscheide. They are last recorded among the Danish colonies on 22 April 1765. They joined the migration to Russia.
Hans Georg Lapp, a farmer, his wife Anna Agnesa, and daughter Esther Elisabeth (age ¾) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinwald in Household No. 10. They had arrived in Reinwald on 14 July 1766.
Widower Georg Lapp, his daughter Esther Elisabeth, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw09.
The Eichhorns record that Hans Georg Lapp came from the German village of Kürnbach in the Württemberg region. The 1767 census records that Hans Georg Laub came from the German village of Heilbronn in the Württemberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Lapp family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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-946.
- 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): Rw09, Sz10.
- Parish register of Grundhof [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 31.
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