Franz Doulzon, a mason (maurer) from France, was living in Bommersheim as early as 1739. He married Anna Christina Jörges, daughter of Johannes Georg Jörges & Anna Margaretha Meister. Anna Christina Jörges had been baptized 11 March 1718 in Bommersheim.
The baptisms of several children born to Franz Doulzon & Anna Christina Jörges are recorded in the parish register of Bommersheim: (1) Anna Maria, baptized 8 June 1747, died 23 February 1754; (2) Jacob, baptized 22 January 1751, died 3 February 1757; (3) Maria Dorothea, baptized 14 April 1754; and (4) Johannes, baptized 18 December 1758. Franz Doulzon also had an acknowledged illegitimate daughter with Agatha Becker, daughter of Gerhard & Elisabetha Becker: Maria Margaretha Doulzon, baptized 21 November 1760, died 15 June 1765. [Agatha Becker had been baptized 20 July 1736 in Bommersheim.]
Franz Dulson, a farmer, his wife Christina, and children (Lorenz, age 20; Dorothea, age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 30 May 1766 aboard the pink Lopamink under the command of Lieutenant Kryukov.
Franz Dulson, a mason (Maurer), his [new] wife Susanna [Schröpfer?], and daughter [by an earlier wife] Dorothea (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 8. They had settled in Preuss on 12 May 1767.
Andreas Dulson, presumed son of Franz Dulson, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps15.
In 1789, Georg Adam Dulson, presumed son of Franz Dulson, moved from Preuss to Seelmann.
Georg Adam Dulson from Preuss is recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm12.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Dulson came from the Bamberg region while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Bommersheim in the Kurmainz.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ps15, Sm12, Mv2347.
- Parish register of Bommersheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 415.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #391.
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Entry from the parish register of Bommersheim recording the baptism of Jacob Doulzon, son of Franz Doulzon, on 22 January 1751.
Source: João Vicente Akwa.