Wildericus Laurentius Jung, son of Jacob & Maria Elisabeth Jung, was baptized 20 September 1682 in Kostheim.
He married Catharina. The following children were born to Wildericus Laurentius & Catharina Jung: (1) Maria Magdalena, born 14 October 1705; (2) Maria Catharina, born 1 February 1708, buried 11 May 1713; (3) Johannes Theodor, born 19 June 1710, buried 7 July 1710; (4) Johannes Werner, born 29 July 1711; and (5) Catharina, born 3 February 1714.
Catharina Jung died 3 June 1714 and was buried 4 June 1714.
Widower Wildericus Laurentius Jung remarried 21 May 1714 in St. Kilian Catholic Church in Kostheim to Maria Apollonia Kuffer. She was baptized 24 September 1693 in Kostheim.
The baptisms of two children born to Wildericus Laurentius Jung & Maria Apollonia Kuffer are recorded in the parish register of St. Kilian Catholic Church in Kostheim: (1) Jacob, born 31 March 1717; and (2) Johanna Elisabeth, baptized 23 February 1720.
Maria Apollonia Jung née Kuffer died 25 March 1722 in Kostheim.
Widower Wildericus Laurentius Jung remarried in June 1722 in St. Kilian Catholic Church in Kostheim to Anna Margaretha Weidenbusch. She died 20 February 1728.
The following children were born to Wildericus Laurentius Jung & Anna Margaretha Weidenbusch: (1) Maria Salome, born 30 August 1723, buried 9 April 1725; (2) Adam Friedrich, born 10 March 1725, baptized 12 March 1725; and (3) Johannes Nikolaus, born 6 December 1726, buried 19 April 1728.
Anna Margaretha Jung née Weidenbusch died 20 February 1728 in Kostheim.
Widower Wildericus Laurentius Jung remarried 20 February 1729 in St. Kilian Catholic Church in Kostheim to Agnette Adam.
The following children were born to Wildericus Laurentius Jung & Agnette Adam: (1) Johannes Jacob, baptized 2 November 1729, died 27 February 1729; (2) Johannes Philipp, born 14 October 1730; (3) Johannes Peter Paul, baptized 27 December 1731, died 22 June 1732; and (4) Anna Catharina, baptized 7 June 1734.
Agnette Jung née Adam died 28 November 1734 in Kostheim.
Widower Wildericus Laurentius June remarried 31 May 1735 in St. Kilian Catholic Church in Kostheim to Barbara Schwan.
Adam Friedrich Jung, a baker (Bäcker), his wife Elisabeth, and daughters (Veronkia, age 17; Elisabeth, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Adam Friedrich Jung, a baker (Bäcker), his [new] wife Katharina [widow of Michael Holz], and [step-]daughers (Katharina, age 17; Jakobina, age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 2. They had arrived in Leitsinger on 12 May 1767. [See Holz Family.]
Following the destruction of Leitsinger in 1774, the surviving members of this family settled in Neu-Kolonie.
Veronika Holz née Jung and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk05.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Jung came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Adam Friedrich Jung came from the German village of Kotzgrimm [Kostheim] in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Jung family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 129.
- 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): Nk05.
- Parish register of St. Kilian Catholic Church in Kostheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 63.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #761.
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