Jung (Leitsinger-2)
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Jung (Leitsinger-2)
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Discussion & Documentation:
Adam Friedrich Jung, a baker (Bäcker), and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Vergelte Weintraube under the command of Skipper Anderson.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Leitsinger and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2.
The 1767 census records that Adam Friedrich Jung came from the German village of Kotzgrimm in the Kurmainz region.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Jung family.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 63.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #761.
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Brent Mai