Spelling Variations
Bessinger (Straub)*
Бесингеръ (Straub)*
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Discussion & Documentation
Andreas Bessinger, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Elisabeth Margaretha (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 88 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Straub in 1768. They had settled in Preuss on 15 July 1767.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Bessinger came from the German village of Flurstedt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bessinger family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 428.
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