Lange (Katharinenstadt)
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Lange (Katharinenstadt)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Heinrich / Friedrich Lange, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Elisabeth, and son Jakob (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 33. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.
Son Jakob from Katharinenstadt is recorded on the 1798 census of Beauregard in Household No. Bo30.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich / Friedrich Lange came from the German village of Nieder-Ramstadt in the Darmstadt region.
Sources:
- 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): Bo30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 283.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai