Matthias Bös, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Schäfer on 1 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
In 1788, Mattias Buss and his family moved from Schäfer to Katharinenstadt.
They are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka026.
The 1767 census records that Matthias Bös came from the German village of Ellmendingen in the Durlach region.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 9, 44)
- 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): Ka026, Mv2518.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 96.
Brent Mai