Immanuel Mesche [sic] and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Emanuel Musche [sic] and his wife Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Emmanuel Musch [sic], a miller (Müller), and his wife Dorothea are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 36.
In 1786, Immanuel Musch moved from Basel to Bettinger.
Widow Johanna Margaretha Musch is recorded on the 1798 census of Bettinger in Household No. Bt30. The agricultural portion of the 1798 census of Bettinger records this surname as Moch.
The 1767 census records that Emmanuel Musch came from the German village of Bosturf [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 829.
- 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): Bt30, Mv0128.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6648 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 358.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4073-4074.
Brent Mai