Two Stang families immigrated to the Volga German colonies. Both of them came from the German village of Wallernhausen near Büdingen. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Weigand Stang and his wife Anna had a total of six children in Wallernhausen including: (a) Friderica Elisabetha, born 24 March 1742, baptized 26 March 1742; and (b) Johann Heinrich, baptized 6 March 1745.
[a] Friedericka Eliesabetha Stang from Wallernhausen married 27 June 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen to Johannes Beutel from Wallernhausen. [See Beutel Family.]
[b] Johann Henrich Stang from Wallernhausen & Anna Christina Seibert from Unter Laÿs were married on 27 June 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Weigand Stang, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann Heinrich (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen.
Wigand [sic] Stang, his wife Anna, and son Johann Heinrich (age 22) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Bernhard [sic] Stang and his son Johann Heinrich (age 23) settled in the Volga German colony of Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 8.
Heinrich Stang and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. Yp29.
The descendants of Heinrich Stang are recorded on the 1834 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Households No. 180 & 205.
Peter Stang from Yagodnaya Polyana and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Weigand Stang came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Wallernhausen.
(2) Johann Schwinger [sic], a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Heinrich, age 20; Johann, age 13; Elisabeth, age 8; Elisabeth [again], age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Joh. Heinr. Schwing [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Conradt, age 14; Donnau Elis., age 8; Elisabeth, age 6) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Heinrich Stang, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Konrad, age 14; Elisabeth, age 10; Elisabeth, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Ernestinendorf in Household No. 7. They had settled in Ernestinendorf on 3 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Stang came from the German village of Wallernhausen near Büdingen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Ernestinendorf Stang family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Yagodnaya Polyana Census (Households No. 180, 205).
- 1857 Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 788.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Yp29.
- 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): #718, #719.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Wallernhausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 397.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 175.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4239, #6295.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5474-5478, #8053-8055.
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