François Just Toulza, son of Jean Sebastian Toulza & Marie Bernatel, was baptized 5 August 1725 in Narbonne, France.
He married on 14 November 1745 in Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Heddernheim to Anna Christina Jörges, daughter of Johannes Georg Jörges & Anna Margaretha Meister. She had been born 27 March 1718 in Bommersheim.
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.
[Johannes Georg Jörges, son of Johannes & Anna Maria Jörges, was baptized 7 November 1677 in Bommersheim. Johannes Georg Jörges married on 26 April 1695 in Bommersheim to Anna Margaretha Meister, daughter of Johannes Philipp Meister & Anna Catharina Euler. Johannes Philipp Meister, son of Michael Meister, was born on August 20, 1647. Johannes Philipp Meister, married on 12 June 1673 in Bommersheim to Anna Catharina Euler, daughter of Andreas Euler.]
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 via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
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.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 91.
- 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.
- Parish register of Saint Sebastian Catholic Church in Narbonne.
- Parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Heddernheim.
- 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 Narbonne, France, recording the baptism of François Just Dulson on 5 August 1725.
Source: João Vicente Akwa.
Entry from the parish register Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Heddernheim recording the marriage of Franciscus Dulson to Anna Christina Jörges on 14 November 1745.
Source: João Vicente Akwa.
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.