Wilhelm Surgang, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and daughters (Elisabeth, age 12; Helena, age 10¼; Anna, age 5¼; Gertruda, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Wilhelm Surgang, his wife Magdalena, and daughters (Eisabeth, age 12; Helena, age 11; Marta, age 6) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Anna Magdalena Surgang is recorded on the 1798 census of Basel in Household No. Bs06 as the wife of Gottfried Zöllner.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Surgang came from the German region of Hessen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 667.
- 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): Bs06.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5297.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3227-3231.
Brent Mai