Johann Lang, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Fischer on 28 July 1765. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12 along with his new wife, Anna Susanna.
Widow Susanna Lang and her children are recorded on the 1798 census of Fischer in Household No. Fs42.
The 1767 census records that Johann Lang came from the Polish village of Filis [?] and that Anna Susanna came from Prussia "errinnert sich nicht an den Geburtsort" (but doesn't remember the place of her birth).
- 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): Fs42.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 411.
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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