The Johann Adam Wagner family that settled in Nieder-Monjou came from Wittgenborn, near Wächtersbach. The Wächtersbach Parish register records that Johann Adam Wagner, son of Catharina Wagner of Wittgenborn, married on 11 February 1754 to Anna Margareatha Protzmann, daughter of Wilhelm Protzmann.
The baptisms of five of their children are recorded there: (1) Anna Catharina, baptized 2 June 1754; (2) Johann Christoph, baptized 25 September 1757; (3) Maria Magdalena, baptized 7 October 1759; (4) Anna Magdalena, baptized 18 June 1762; and (5) Anna Gertraud, baptized 16 December 1764.
Johann Wagner, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 14; Johann, age 8; Maria, age 8; Magdalena, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Johann Adam Wagner, his wife Anna Margreta, and children (Catrina, age 14; Johan Christopher, age 10½; Maria Magdalena, age 8; Anna Magdalena, age 4) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Adam Wagner, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Katharina, age 16; Christoph, age 11; Magdalena, age 9; Maria, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 51. They had arrived in Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767.
Adam Wagner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb07.
Christoph Wagner, believed to be the son of Adam Wagner, from Meinhard and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bettinger in Household No. Bt23.
The death in 1822 of Johann Christoph Wanger [sic], son of Christoph Wagner, is recorded on the 1834 census of Bettinger in Household No. 28.
Heinrich Christoph Wagner, son of Adam Wagner, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Biberstein in Household No. 66.
Johann Heinrich Wagner, son of Heinrich Christoph Wagner, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Biberstein in Household No. 80.
[Johann] Heinrich Wagner and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Biberstein in Household No. 118 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Rosendamm in 1853 [sic].
[Johann] Heinrich Wagner from Biberstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosendamm in Household No. 18 along with a note that he arrived in Rosendamm from Biberstein in 1851 [sic].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Wagner came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Wagner came from the German village of Wittenborn.
- 1834 Bettinger Census (Household No. 28).
- 1834 Biberstein Census (Household No. 66, 80).
- 1857 Biberstein Census (Household No. 118).
- 1857 Rosendamm Census (Household No. 18).
- 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): 506.
- 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): Bb07, Bt23.
- Parish register of Wächtersbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 196.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3981.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6213-6218.
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