Paul Busch, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and daughter Katharina (age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 26 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 22.
Paulus Busch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl36.
Paulus Busch and his son Johann Peter are recorded on the 1811 census of Dehler in Household No. 34 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Preuss in 1800.
Paulus Busch and his son Peter are recorded on the 1811 census of Preuss in Household No. 94 along with a note that they had arrived in Preuss fro Dehler in 1800.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Paul Busch was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a blacksmith (Schmied).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Paul Busch came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Paul Busch came from the German village of Bommersheim in the Kurmainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Busch family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Dehler Census (Household No. 34).
- 1811 Preuss Census (Household No. 94).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 452.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dl36.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 1999): 271.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3525.
Brent Mai