Skip to main content

Lange (Katharinenstadt)

Spelling Variations
Ланге (Katharinenstadt)
Lange (Katharinenstadt)
Settled in the Following Colonies
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.

Heinrich Lange (age 35), his wife Louisa née Kämpfer (age 21), and son Jakob (age 15) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 128.

Jakob Lange 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. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Family List records that Heinrich Lange came from the German village of Nieder-Ramstadt in Hessen-Darmstadt and that Louisa née Kämpfer came from the German village of Kalbenberg [Kloppenberg] in Westfalen.

Sources

- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 128).
- 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