Martin Dagen, a craftsman (Handwerker), his [unnamed] wife, and 5 [unnamed] children immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), arriving in Flensburg on 24 July 1762. They swore allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 7 October 1762.
The marriage of Susanna Degin [sic], daughter of Martin Degin [sic], to Johann Georg Günther is recorded on 7 September 1762 in the parish register of Eggebek-Jörl [Denmark]. [See Günther Family.]
The death of Johann Heinrich Dagen, son of Martin & Anna Maria Dagen, is recorded in the parish register of Jörl on 6 January 1763 at the age of 7 years, 2 months.
On 24 April 1765 they settled on the farmstead "Moltcken Hof" in the colony of Friderichsheide.
They left the Danish colonies in 1765 and joined the migration to Russia.
Martin Dagen, his wife Anna Maria, and daughter Eva Magdalena (age 3½) settled in the Volga German colony of Reinwald on 14 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
The 1767 census records that Martin Dagen came from the German region of Mosbach in the Kurpfalz region. The Eichhorns record that Martin Dagen came from "Berwangen, Herrschaft von Graf von Helmstatt, Ritterlicher Kanton Kraichgau, Schwäbischer Ritterkreis."
This surname is recorded on various documents with a variety of spellings including Dagin, Dagen, Dege, and Tege.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this family, so the surname does not continue among the Volga German colonies.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-256.
- 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): Ka120, Rh12.
- Parish register of Eggebek-Jörl.
- Parish register of Jörl.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 34.
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