Menges (Kaneau)*
Leonhard Menges from Senck & Anna Regina Mathes, a widow, were married 28 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Leonhard Menges, a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]son Georg [Mathes] (age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
Leonhard Menges evidently died after arriving in Russia. His widow Anna is recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 57 married to Georg Friedrich Baschka/Paske along with her son Johann Georg Mattis (age 10).
The Büdingen marriage register records that Leonhard Menges came from the German village of Senck. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that he came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Menges family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): #598.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 256.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2849.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the Leonhard Menges family.
Source: Brent Mai.