Wagner (Nieder-Monjou)
The Johann Adam Wagner family that settled in Nieder-Monjou came from Wittgenborn, near Wächtersbach. The Wächtersbach Parish records report that Johann Adam Wagner, son of Catharina Wagner of Wittgenborn, and Anna Margareatha Protzmann, daughter of Wilhelm Protzmann, were married on 11 February 1754.
The baptisms of five of their children are recorded there: (1) Anna Catharina, baptized 2 June 1754; (2) Johann Christoph, baptized 25 September 1757; (3) Maria Magdalena, baptized 7 October 1759; (4) Anna Magdalena, baptized 18 June 1762; and (5) Anna Gertraud, baptized 16 December 1764.
Johann Adam Wagner, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and children (Katharina, age 16; Christoph, age 11; Magdalena, age 9; Maria, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 51. They had arrived in Nieder-Monjou on 3 August 1767.
Adam Wagner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Biberstein in Household No. Bb07.
Christoph Wagner, believed to be the son of Adam Wagner, from Meinhard and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bettinger in Household No. Bt23.
The death in 1822 of Johann Christoph Wanger [sic], son of Christoph Wagner, is recorded on the 1834 census of Bettinger in Household No. 28.
Heinrich Christoph Wagner, son of Adam Wagner, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Biberstein in Household No. 66.
Johann Heinrich Wagner, son of Heinrich Christoph Wagner, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Biberstein in Household No. 80.
[Johann] Heinrich Wagner and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Biberstein in Household No. 118 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Rosendamm in 1853 [sic].
[Johann] Heinrich Wagner from Biberstein and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rosendamm in Household No. 18 along with a note that he arrived in Rosendamm from Biberstein in 1851 [sic].
The 1767 census records that Johann Adam Wagner came from the German village of Wittenborn.
- 1834 Bettinger Census (Household No. 28).
- 1834 Biberstein Census (Household No. 66, 80).
- 1857 Biberstein Census (Household No. 118).
- 1857 Rosendamm Census (Household No. 18).
- 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): Bb07, Bt23.
- Parish Records of Wächtersbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 196.
Brent Mai
Maggie Hein