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Jungmann (Yagodnaya Polyana)

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The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Heinrich & Anna Catharina Jungmann are recorded in the parish register of Wallernhausen: (1) Anna Maria, born approximately 1737, died 24 March 1757; (2) Maria Elisabetha, baptized 5 June 1745; (3) Helena Margaretha, baptized 5 July 1748; (4) Johann Ludwig, baptized 27 December 1750, died 16 December 1764; (5) Johann Heinrich, born 25 March 1753, baptized 27 March 1753; (6) Elisabetha Catharina, baptized 24 December 1757; and (7) Johann Conrad, baptized 30 January 1761.

Johann Heinrich Jungmann, a teacher, his wife Anna Katharina, and children (Helena Margaretha, age 20; Johann Heinrich, age 15; Elisabeth, age 12; Konrad, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.

Joh. Heinr. Jungmann, his wife Margretha, and children (Helena Margretha, age 19; Joh. Henrich, age 15; Elisabeth, age 9; Joh. Conradt, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Margretha and daughter Helena Margretha died en ruoute.

The rest of the family arrived in Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767 and are recorded there in Household No. 3.

Son Heinrich married Katharina Kromm and is recorded on the 1798 Yagodnaya Polyana Census in Household No. Yp56. Son Konrad married Anna Maria Ruhl and is recorded in Household No. Yp23.

Sources

- "Auswandererliste aus Ober-Lais Eichelsdorf nach Jagodnaya Poljana." Eicheltäler Heimatglocken 2 (February 1929): 73.
- Die Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen vom Vogelsberg zur Wolga (Alsfeld, Wiesbaden: Die Albert-Schweitzer-Schule, 1990): 55.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 777.
- Kromm, Georg. “Research in Hesse”, Work Paper of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 13 (December 1973).
- 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): Yp23, Yp56.
- Mai, Brent Alan, trans. & ed. Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga: 1766-1767 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1998): entries 7083-7088.
- Parish register of Wallernhausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 174.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6223.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8197-8202.
- Yungman, Susan M. Faith of Our Fathers (Pine Island, NY: 1972).

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