Lang Name Study

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Introduction

How to Join

Please contact the project leader Kathy Edmond or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!

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Origin of the name Lang and its meaning

• House of Names
• Wikipedia
• Forebears

The family name emerged in the old duchy of Saxony, which existed from the 9th to the 12th centuries. A common form of surname found in Lower Saxony are those that are derived from nicknames. Nickname surnames were derived from an eke-name, or added name. They usually reflected the physical characteristics or attributes of the first person that used the name. The name lang is derived from the Old German word "lang," which means "long," and it was a nickname for a very tall person.

Lang One-Name-Study Template

To add a sticker to a profile, add this under the Biography: {{One Name Study|name=Lang}}. To add a profile to the LANG Name Study, insert [[Category: Lang Name Study]] before the Biography.

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Early Lang settlers in America

Select Lang Genealogy http://www.selectsurnames4.com/lang.html

Pennsylvania. The largest number of Lang immigrants to America was from German-speaking lands. They began arriving into Pennsylvania in the early 1700’s as religious refugees. These early Langs, however, generally anglicized their names to Long: this was the case with Christian Lang who arrived from the Palatine in 1718 and Johannes Lang from Hesse in 1722. Both settled with their families as Longs in Lancaster county. George Lang meanwhile arrived in Philadelphia in 1751. He settled in North Carolina in 1765 as George Long. Some did remain Lang, such as the descendants of the Revolutionary War veteran George Lang who was born in Bucks county in 1761. A number of his grandchildren fought as Langs in the Civil War. However, these Langs were Presbyterian in their religion - suggesting a Scottish ancestry.

Midwest. Abraham Lang had migrated from upstate New York in the 1840’s to Ohio, to Illinois, and later to Iowa and Nebraska. His son William Lang made his mark in Denver, Colorado where, during a brief career in the 1880’s, he proved himself to be one of the best residential architects the city has known.

Captain Oscar Lange was an early immigrant to the Midwest from Europe. Born in Sweden, he had first come to Boston in 1824 at the age of 13 to work as a seaman. He came to Chicago in 1838 and fifty years later was honored there as the oldest living Swedish immigrant in America.

Wisconsin was a popular destination for Langes. A family from Thuringia in Germany first began arriving in 1846. They made their home in Jamestown township in SW Wisconsin. Friedrich Lange came from Posen in Prussia in 1866 and settled in Juneau county seven years later. August Lange, also from Prussia, came to Milwaukee in 1882. Meanwhile George Oscar Lange arrived in Minnesota from Germany around the year 1910. His grand-daughter was the actress Jessica Lange.

The Lang Family https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005731268 A genealogy of the first five generations in America of the Lang family, descendants of Robert Lang, fisherman, of the isles of Shoals. A chart of the first four generations, a chart of the first seven generations of adult male Langs, a map of Sagamore creek family homesteads, by Howard Parker Moore.

LANG Surname Meaning and Family History https://www.thoughtco.com/lang-surname-meaning-and-origin-4084380 Lange is the 26th most common German surname, while Lang is the 46th most common. Long is the 86th most popular surname in the United States. Surname Origin: German, Scottish, English, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Chinese

Links

• NYHISTORICNEWSPAPERS: has many options for searching for your New York ancestor.
• Lang Genealogy Forum https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lang/
• Lang Genealogy on wikitree https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/lang
• Profiles with Lang name https://www.geni.com/surnames/people/lang
• Category:Lang_Name_Study (other profiles in Lang Name Study) https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lang_Name_Study

Task List

1. Improve the profile and research the parental lineage for John Joseph Lang Sr (abt. 1818 - abt. 1885)

Sources