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Bichner / Büchner (Laub)

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Bichner (Laub)
Büchner (Laub)
Bigner (Laub)
Бигнеръ (Laub)
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Discussion & Documentation

Johann Georg Büchner was born in 1743. He was living in Schafheim at the time that he married on 6 March 1764 in Ober-Ramstadt to Dorothea Sophia Kuhlmann, daughter of Johann Andreas Kuhlmann & Susanna Maria Lämmermann. Dorothea Sophia had been born in Ober-Ramstadt on 7 November 1743.

They immigrated to Russia arriving in the Volga German colony of Laub on 12 Jul y 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 3 along with children Johann (age 4) and Katharina (age 1).

On the 1798 Census of Laub, their children are living in Households No. Lb05 and Lb41.

Sources

- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Ober-Ramstadt (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): Lb05, Lb41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 20.

Contributor(s) to this page

Bill Pickelhaupt

Immigrated to the following locations

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies

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Immigration Locations