Born about 1751 in Germany

Descendants

Died after 1813 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Matthias Lonsinger is a Volga German.

Matthias Lonsinger has German Roots.

Germany-Denmark-Russia

A48-3 in The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766.

B-990 in The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766.

Rus14-29 in The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766.

Family # 37 in the 1775 Grimm census.

Family #80 in the 1798 Grimm census.

Family #234 in the 1834 census. (implied by naming children)

Matthias Wilhelm Lonsinger was born in the Principality of Hohenlohe, about 57 miles north east of what is now Stuttgart, Germany. His parents were Matthias Wilhelm and an unnamed mother, who immigrated to Denmark in 1763. By 1775, Matthias was 20, living with his father and step-mother Eva Katharina and her two daughters from her previous marriage to a Mr. Merkel.

Matthias married Anna Elisabeth Fesser before 1787, and the couple went on to have six documented children:

• Elisabeth (Lonsinger) Menzer, born 1788
• Maria Elisabeth Lonsinger. born 1790
• Anna Katharina Lonsinger, born 1794
• Johann Valentin Lonsinger, born 1797
• Heinrich Lonsinger, born 1806
• Anna Elisabeth Lonsinger, born 1813

It's possible that Matthias and his wife had additional children, specifically girls, born between 1799 and 1817. If they were married and living with their husbands' families, they would never be listed in a census with their biological parents and siblings. This would help explain the large gaps between children 1797-1806 and 1806-1813.

In the 1798 census, Matthias is listed as an invalid.

He is not listed in the 1834 census, and is presumed to have passed away by that year. His youngest child was born in 1813, so he died some time after that. If he passed away before 1816, his death would have been noted in the 1816 male-only census and note reported again in 1834.

Sources

• Eichhorn, Dr. Alexander, Dr. Jacob and Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766; Bonn, Germany and Midland Michigan, USA; Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, Deiningen, Germany, 2012; pages 313, 505, and 673.

• The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony on the Volga, Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, NE, USA; Published 1995; family #37 in the 1775 census, Matthias Lontslinger, age 20; family #80 in the 1798 census, Matthias Lonzinger, age 47, invalid.

• 1834 Census of Grimm in the District of Saratov, Russia, dated 2 February 1835; Translated by Brent Mai, Concordia University, Portland, Oregon; Published by Dynasty Publishing, Beaverton, OR, USA; Published 2011; page 70, family #234 and #222, the two families in which his children were living.

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