Johan Hinr. Langweiter [sic], a farmer from the area of Darmstadt, & Anna Elisab. Hoffgesang from the area of Darmstadt were married on 3 June 1766 in a house in Lübeck. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Konrad Hoffgesang, a miller, his wife Anna, and daughter Anna (age 24) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Joh. Conrad Hoffgesang, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Maria (age 24) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Daughter Anna Maria Hoffgesang is recorded on the 1798 census of Kind in Household No. Kd15 as the widow of Adam Derr and wife of Gottlieb Weidenbach.
It is presumed that this Konrad Hoffgesang is also the father of the Anna Elisabeth Hoffgesang who married Johann Heinrich Langweiler. The Langweiler couple had arrived in Oranienbaum on the same day, but on a different ship.
The Langweiler couple settled in the Volga German colony of Näb, and it is assumed that the Hoffgesang in-laws settled there as well.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hoffgesang family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Kd15.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #238.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5348.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2965-2967.
Brent Mai
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