Johannes Wagner, son of Johann Conrad Wagner & Anna Maria Müller, was born 23 December 1723 in Langgöns, Hessen, Germany. His lineage is traced to Baltzer Wagner who was born there in 1620/1630.
Johannes Wagner married on 16 May 1752 in Rendel to Anna Margaretha Burbach.
Johannes Wagner, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Eva, age 14; Christina, age 12; Johann, age 9; Philipp, age 7; Conrad, age 4; Sebastian, age 6-weeks) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
Johannes Wagner, a farmer, his wife Anna Margartha, and children (Eva, age 14; Christina, age 13; Johannes, age 10½; Johann Philipp, age 8; Johann Konrad, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Frank in Household no. 85. They had arrived in Frank on 1 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Wagner came from the German region of Friedberg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Rinteln [sic] in the region of Friedberg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
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- 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): Fk022, Fk078, Fk084.
- Parish register of Langgöns.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 432.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2442.
- Pleve, Igor. Wagner Ancestral Chart.
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