Arend Lange [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and sons (Johann, age 20; Ludwig, age 18; Karl, age 15; Heinrich, age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Arnd Lange [sic], his wife Anna Cathrina, and his sons (Johann Christoph, age 20; Johann Ludewig, age 18; Johann Carl, age 15; Johann Henrich, age 12) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Ernestus [sic] Lang, a weaver (Tuchweber), his wife Anna Katharina, and sons (Christoph, age 20; Johann Ludwig, age 18; Johann Karl, age 15; Johann Heinrich, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 64. They had arrived in Brabander on 5 September 1767.
Ludwig Lang and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn55.
Heinrich Lang and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn47.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Arend Lange came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxon). The 1767 census records that Ernestus [sic] Lang came from the German village of Branzel in Sachsen (Saxony).
- 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): Bn47, Bn55.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 228.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2952.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7778-7783.
Brent Mai