Johann Valentin Bingemer, son of Johann Conrad Bingemer (1661-1737) & Agnes Groh (11 February 1674 - 12 February 1760), was baptized at the Lutheran parish church in Rendel on 13 August 1717.
Johann Valentin Bingemer married on 4 May 1741 in Rendel to Judith Catharina Hock, daughter of Johannes Hock (1681-1741) and Margaretha Bechthold (1683-1740). Judith Catharina Hock had been baptized on 24 January 1717 in Rendel.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Valentin Bingemer & Judith Catharina Hock are recorded in the parish register of Rendel: (1) Johann Peter, baptized 16 January 1743, buried 4 August 1746; (2) Anna Maria, baptized 20 March 1745; (3) Anna Catharina, baptized 8 April 1748, buried 19 April 1751; (4) Anna Margaretha, baptized 26 August 1750, buried 29 April 1751; (5) Judith Catharina, baptized 4 March 1752, buried 8 January 1758; (6) Anna Elisabeth, baptized 19 January 1755, died before 1766; and (7) Johann Christoph, baptized 31 July 1761.
Oldest daughter Anna Maria Bingemer married on 3 June 1766 in Büdingen to Johann Heinrich Klein [See Klein Family]. They also immigrated to Russia.
Valentin Binginer [sic], a farmer, his wife [Judith] Katharina, and son Johann (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Valengin Pingrer [sic], his wife Juddoa [sic], and son Christoph (age 10½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Valentin settled in the Volga German colony of Frank and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 83 along with his wife Judith.
Daughter Anna Maria Klein née Bingemer and her husband also settled in Frank and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 79.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Valentin Binginer [sic] came from the German region of Friedburg while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Rinteln in the Frieberg [?] region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Decker, Klaus-Peter. Büdingen als Sammelplatz der Auswanderung an die Wolga 1766 (Büdingen: Geschichtswerkstatt Büdingen 2009): 77.
- 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): Fk075.
- Parish register of Rendel.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 431.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3748.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7433-7435.
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