Bensak

Johannes Bensack was born in 1685 in Maisenhausen. He married Anna Maria (surname not known) who had been born in 1690.

Their son Christopherus Bensack was born in Maisenhausen on 1 November 1714. He married Anna Maria Bauer.

Their son Johannes Bensack was born 1 January 1739 in Wasserlos. He married on 18 May 1743 in Michelbach to Anna Maria (surname not known).

Johann Bonzalt [sic], a stonemason, his wife Katharina, brother Peter (age 16¼), and mother Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Hermann Anderson.

Johann Pensack [sic], his wife Catharina, brother Peter (age 16), and mother Anna Mar. are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johannes Bensak, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 18 along with orphan Peter Haspert (age 16) [who may be the same Peter recorded earlier as the brother of Johannes Bensak], son of the deceased Georg Haspert. They had settled there on 24 July 1767. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Bensak and Haspert families.

The widow and son of Johannes Bensack are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se14.

Ignatius Bensak from Kamenka and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.

Following the 1941 deportation, part of this Bensack family ended up in the Siberian village of Rosenovka. Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 and the removal of the Special Settlement restrictions in 1956, this family returned to the Volga German region and settled in what has previously been the colony of Kraft.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Bensak came from the German village of Michelbach in the Kurmainz region.