Bangert

Willhelm Bangert, a miller, his wife Maria, their children (Georg, age 10; Anna, age 8; Johann, age 5; Heinrich, age 3; Katharina, age ½), and his single brother Johann [Heinrich] (age 26) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander. The brothers Bangert did not settle in the same colony.

(1) Wilhelm Bangert died after arrival in Russia, and his widow remarried to Christian Gottfried Dietel. They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel on 1 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 along with her son and daughter.

(2) Johann Heinrich Bangert, a farmer, and his new wife Katharina Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Bangert on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1. There is also a note on the 1767 census identifying Johann Heinrich Bangert as the major (Vorsteher) of the colony.

The 1767 census of Bangert records that Johann Heinrich Bangert came from the German town of Niederlauken in the Nassau-Usingen area. This is consistent with the Oranienbaum passenger list which records that Wilhelm Bangert came from the Usingen region. The 1767 census of Dietel, however, records that Friedrich Bangert, son of Wilhelm, came from the German village of Runkel in the Kurpfalz region.