Melchior Lang & Catharina Ekhart were married 24 April 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.
Melchior Lang, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. Melchior is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 11 along with his new wife Maria Katharina and his brother-in-law Johann Jakob Bensler (age 5).
Widower Melchior Lang and his children are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr091.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Melchior land is a farmer from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that he was a tailor (Schneider) from the German village of Bladernheim in the Hanau region.
- 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): 115.
- 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): Wr091.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #142.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 323.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #625.
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