Johann Georg Busch, Gemeindsmann in Zeilhard, married on 25 December 1712 in Georgenhausen to Susanna Kämmerer. The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Georg Busch & Susanna Kämmerer are recorded in the parish register of Zeilhard: (1) [perhaps by an earlier wife?] Anna Sophia, born 10 November 1710; (2) Anna Maria, born 14 May 1713; (3) Johann Georg, born 19 September 1716; (4) Maria Elisabetha, born 10 October 1720; (5) Anna Elisabetha, born 26 October 1723; and (6) Johannes, born 12 April 1727.
Father Johann Georg Busch died in Zeilhard on 3 January 1751.
Johann Heinrich [sic] Busch, a servant in the household of Herr Baldauff on the Einsiedel, married on 6 December 1765 in Roßdorf bei Darmstadt, Hessen, to Anna Catharina Häusser, daughter of Johann Nicolaus Häusser & Anna Elisabetha Götz. She had been born 10 September 1734 in Rossdorf bei Darmstadt and baptized there on 12 September 1734.
The baptisms of two children born to Johannes Busch [by an earlier wife?] are recorded in the parish register of Roßdorf: (1) Johann Nicolaus, born & baptized 2 February 1761; and (2) Catharina Margretha, born 17 September 1764, baptized 19 September 1764.
Johann Heinrich Busch, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Laub on 12 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 10.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Busch came from the German village of Rossdorf in the Darmstadt region.
- Franze-Merlau, Christel. Familienbuch Rossdorf bei Darmstadt (Darmstadt: Deutsche Ortssippenbücher, 2004): 91 [Online].
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Zeilhard [Online].
- 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): Lb35, Lb65.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 21.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2171.
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