Nicolas Useldinger & Margaretha Fischer had 3 children whose births are recorded on the parish register of Remich, Luxemburg: (1) Joseph, born 19 March 1743; (2) Matthias, born 31 December 1745; and (3) Barbara, born 7 March 1749. Mother Margaretha died in Remich on 18 January 1760.
Joseph married Maria [surname unknown] and the birth of a son is recorded on the parish register of Remich: Oswald, born 4 April 1764.
Joseph Useldinger, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son [illegible] (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Joseph Useldinger, a farmer, and his wife, Maria, settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 101.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Useldinger came from the village of Remich in Luxembourg. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Useldinger came from the German region of Isenburg, but there are many passengers aboard this ship that came from Luxembourg, and Isenburg is believed to be incorrect.
[Some translations erroneously record this surname as Basinger.]
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Kayser, Prosper & Paul Vanolst. Familienchronik der Stadt Remich 1675-1923 (Kayser et Vanolst, 2016).
- 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): Ps34.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 431.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2221.
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