Jung (Holstein)
Johannes Jung Senior (age 51), a day laborer (Tagelöhner), his wife Margaretha (age 52), and children (Johannes Junior, age not recorded; Elisabeth, age 25; Solomon, age 20) migrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 12 June 1762.
[a] Johannes Jung Junior, his wife Christina (age 32), and children (Jakob, age 14; Katharina, age 12; Barbara, age 7; Johannes, age 5; Jakobina, age 2) arrived in Denmark. They eventually settled in the Danish colony of Neuberend.
[b] Elisabeth Jung married in 1764 to Jacob Heydecker. They eventually settled in the Danish colony of Neuberend, and Johannes Jung Senior is recorded living with them in October 1764.
[c] The marriage of Salomon Jung from Eutingen to Anna [sic] Elisabeth Meier, widow of Jakob Meier, is recorded in the parish register of Großsolt [Schleswig-Flensburg] on 1 March 1763. Jakob Meier had died in Altona in route to Denmark. [See Meier Family.]
They and the Meier stepchildren (Margaretha Barbara, age 12; Margaretha, age 10; Georg Jakob, age 5; Georg, age 2½) eventually settled in the Danish colony of Neubörm.
In 1765, Solomon Jung and his family joined the migration to Russia.
Samson [sic] Jung, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, son Johannes (age 4), and stepchildren (Margaretha [Meier], age 14; Georg Jakob [Meier], age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Holstein in Household No. 25. They had arrived in Holstein on 2 May 1766.
The Eichhorn research records that Solomon Jung was the son of Johannes Jung Senior who was from Eutingen in the Markgrafschaft of Baden-Durlach. The 1767 census records that Solomon Jung came from the village of Eutin[gen].
- 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-761, B-762, B-765.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ho03.
- Parish register of Großsolt [Schleswig-Flensburg].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 132.
Brent Mai
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