Wilhelm Bissing, a blade sharpener (Scherenschleifer), and his wife Andrianna Hegelmann settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 60.
Wilhelm Bissing, his wife Andrianna née Hegelmann, and children (Johann Wilhelm, age 6; Anna Maria, age 4) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 78.
The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Bissing came from the Dutch town of Amsterdam. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that both Wilhelm Bissing and his wife came from Amsterdam.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 78).
- 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): Ka077.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 289.
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