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Enders(en) (Enders-2)

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Anders
Enders (Enders)
Endersen (Enders-2)
Ендерсенъ (Enders-2)
Ендерсъ (Enders)
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The baptisms of the following children born to Friederich Christoph & Catharina Enders are recorded in the parish register of Morsee: (1) Christina Dorothea, born 9 November 1722; (2) Friederich Christopher, born 23 October 1725; and (3) Johann August, born 5 October 1727.

The births of the following children born to Johann August & Maria Magdalena Enders(en) are recorded in the parish register of Morsee: (1) Heinrich Friederich, born 5 June 1749 in Morsee; (2) Johann Matthias Wilhelm, born 14 September 1751 in Hoßen; (3) Jürgen Friederich, born 25 January 1753 in Morsee; and (4) Catharina Magdalena, born 23 February 1757.

Johann August Endersen, son of a pastor, and his brothers Heinrich Friedrich & Johann Friedrich immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) and are recorded there in the colony Friderichsholm on 8 August 1763. They are last recorded in the Danish colonies in November 1764.

Johann August Endersen and his family joined the migration to Russia and settled in the Volga German colony of Enders on 27 July 1765.

Johann August Endersen (age 38), a pastor's son, his [new] wife Anna Barbara (age 18) from Sweden, and daughter [by his first wife] Maria Katharina (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Enders in Household No. 6. His sons (Heinrich Friedrich, age 20; Johann Friedrich, age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Enders in Households No. 7 & 8.

Johann [Friedrich] Endersen and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Enders in Household No. En03.

Johann Friedrich Endersen, presumed son of Johann [Friedrich] Endersen, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Enders in Household No. En29.

For information on Wilhelm Enders from Enders, see Baumann Family.

The Eichhorns record that this Endersen family came from the German village of Moorsee bei Keil in the Holstein region. The 1767 census records that they came from the German town of Keil in the Holstein region.

The surname of Endersen morphed into Enders between the 1834 and 1850 censuses.

Sources

- 1834 Enders Census (Households No. 2, 11, 23. 46, 50).
- 1850 Enders Census (Households No. 2, 17, 34, 74, 75, 76, 82, 83).
- 1857 Enders Census (Households No. 2, 17, 35, 75, 76, 77, 83, 84).
- 1874 Enders Family List (Households No. 3, 4, 5, 6, 38, 39, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 148, 149).
- 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-332.
- 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): En03, En29.
- Parish register of Morsee.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 383.

Contributor(s) to this page

Brent Mai

Wadim Eichmann

Andreas Idt

Entry from the parish register of Morsee recording the birth of Johann August Enders on 5 October 1727.
Source: Wadim Eichmann.

Entry from the parish register of Morsee recording the birth of Hinrich Friederich Enderssen on 5 June 1749.
Source: Wadim Eichmann.

Entry from the parish register of Morsee recording the birth of Johann Matthias Wilhelm Enderssen on 14 September 1751.
Source: Wadim Eichmann.

Entry from the parish register of Morsee recording the birth of Jürgen Friederich Enderssen on 25 January 1753.
Source: Wadim Eichmann.

Entry from the parish register of Morsee recording the birth of Catharina Magdalena Enderssen on 23 February 1757.
Source: Wadim Eichmann.

Entry from the 1767 census of Enders recording the family of Johann August Endersen and his sons.
Source: Arcuen (Wolgadeutsche.net Forum)

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