Spangenberger
Johann Peter Spangenberger, son of Johann Heinrich & Anna Margaretha Spangenberger, was born 25 August 1755 and baptized 28 August 1755 in Eichelsdorf.
Johann Heinrich Spangenberger died, and his widow Anna Margaretha remarried to Nicolaus Langlitz on 10 October 1760. [See Langlitz Family.]
Johann [Peter] Spangenberger (age 14), son of Heinrich Spangenberger, arrived at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 along with his mother and stepfather, Nikolaus Langlitz.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 68.
Johann Peter Spangenberger and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp58.
The death of Peter Spangenberger in 1825 is recorded on the 1834 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 186.
Georg Kromm's research that was published in 1912 records that the Spangenberger family came from the German village of Eichelsdorf near Nidda.
- 1834 Yagodnaya Polyana Census (Household No. 186).
- Eichelsdorfer Auswanderer an der Wolga (in German)
- Kromm, Georg: research reprinted in Flegel, Arthur & Cleo. "Research in Hessen." AHSGR Work Paper XIII (December 1973): 34.
- 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): Yp58.
- Parish register of Eichelsdorf.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 191.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): 409.
Brent Mai
Maggie Hein