Johann Jost Klingelstein [sic] (age 30), a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria Schwender (age 33) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 10 September 1765.
Justus Klingerstein, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 20 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johann Jost Klingelstein [sic] came from the German village of Weiterstadt. The 1767 census records that Justus Klingerstein came from the German village of Weiterstadt in the Darmstadt region.
There to not appear to be an surviving male descendants of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 128 (#373-374).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 117.
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