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Kling / Klink (Balzer)

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Kling (Balzer)
Klink (Balzer)
Клингъ (Balzer)
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Discussion & Documentation

The baptisms of the following children of Philipp Klinck & Anna Barbara Bender are recorded in the parish register of Düdelsheim: (1) Andreas, baptized 31 May 1744; and (2) Johannes, baptized 12 February 1750.

Andreas Klink married in Düdelsheim on 11 March 1766 to Julianna Ruth [sic], the daughter of Conrad & Anna Margaretha Ruth. She had been baptized on 18 September 1740 in nearby Calbach.

Andreas Klink, a farmer, his wife Julianna, and his brother Johann arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard a packet-boat under the command of Midshipman Mankensey.

Andreas Kling, a farmer, his wife Julianna, their daughter Elisabeth (age ¾), and his brother Johannes are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 43. They had arrived in Balzer on 18 June 1767.

Karl Rutt, brother of Julianna Kling née Rutt, and his wife are recorded on the 1767 census of Balzer in Household No. 44. [See Rutt Family.]

Andreas Kling and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Balzer in Household No. Bz081.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Kling came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Isenburg.

Sources

- Bonner, Wayne H. Volga German Settlers Identified in Isenburg and Other German Church Records Part I (Gardena, CA: Wayne Bonner, 2007): 22.
- Decker, Klaus-Peter. Büdingen als Sammelplatz der Auswanderung an die Wolga 1766 (Büdingen: Geschichtswerkstatt Büdingen, 2009): 84.
- Haynes, Emma Schwabenland. "A Document of 1766 Found in Büdingen, Germany." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 3:1 (1980): 1-6.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Bz081.
- Parish records of Düdelsheim (LDS Intl Film #1201789).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 83.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1210.

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