Georg Friedrich Paske [sic], a farmer, his wife Christina, and children (Johann Georg, age 7; Elisabeth, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Georg Friedrich Baschka [sic], a farmer, his [new] wife Anna [widow of an unnamed Mattis & former wife of Leonhard Menges], and daughter Christina (age 6-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 57 along with stepson Johann Georg Mattis (age 10). They had settled there on 10 May 1767. [See Mattis & Menges Families.]
In 1786, Friedrich Baschka and his family moved to Schaffhausen.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Friedrich Paske [sic] came from the German region of Schleswig. The 1767 census records that Georg Friedrich Baschka [sic] came from the German village of Lagnitz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Baschka/Paske family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 54.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 256.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #78.
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