Friedrich Bilensky, a dyer (Färber), arrived in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 101 along with his new wife Maria née Schaul.
Lorenz Bilensky, a painter (Maler), and his wife Maria née Schaul are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 112.
The 1767 census records that Friedrich Bilensky came from the Danish village of Horsei [?]. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Lorenz Bilensky came from the Danish town of Horsens and that his wife came from Amsterdam [Holland].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bilensky family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 112).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 298.
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