Peter Lang, a farmer, her wife Julianna, and children (Johann, age 12; Julianna, age 9; Melchior, age 6; Peter, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Perle under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Peter Lang, a carpenter (Zimmermann), his wife Anna Maria Eiges, and children (Eva, age 12; Melchior, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leichtling in Household No 3. They had settled there on 14 May 1767.
Peter Lang and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg04.
Peter Lang from Leichtling and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Household No. 57.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Lang came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Peter Lang came from the German village of Seligenstadt in the Mainz region.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Household No. 57).
- 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): 161.
- 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): Lg04.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 52.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1018.
Brent Mai