The parish register in Vilseck records that Johannes Georg Heinrich Moser, a judge, and his first wife Maria Anna had two sons: (1) Johannes Kaspar Sebald, baptized 18 August 1733; and (2) Johannes Jakob Ladislaus, baptized 27 June 1735.
Maria Anna Moser died 27 September 1736.
The parish register in Vilseck records that Johannes Georg Heinrich Moser, a judge, and his second wife Magdalena had two sons: (3) Johannes, baptized 27 December 1739, died 27 December 1739; and (4) Georg David, baptized 23 November 1740, died 13 December 1740.
Johannes Georg Heinrich Moser died 15 April 1758.
Johann Mosser, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Johannes [Jakob Ladislaus] Mosser, a single teacher (Lehrer), is recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 82 along with a note that he is working as a day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter). He had settled there on 15 July 1767.
An entry in the minutes of the Office of Immigrant Oversight on 31 December 1807 (GASO F.180, O.1, D.57 - p. 746) records that Anton Regler, a colonist in Luzern, requested to take Johannes Moser, a colonist from Leitsinger, into his home and care for him due to his old age. He has no children. From 1774 to 1778, Johannes Moser had served as a teacher in various colonies. He is not recorded anywhere on the 1798 census of the Volga German colonies. Permission was granted for him to stay with Anton Regler.
The death of Joseph [sic] Mosser in 1826 is recorded on the 1834 census of Köhler in Household No. 91.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Mosser came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Mosser came from the German village of Vilseck.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Mosser 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): 775.
- Parish register of Vilseck.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 77.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6203.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of Vilseck recording the baptism on 27 June 1735 of Johannes Jacob Ladislaus Moser.
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Entry from the parish register of Vilseck recording the death of Georg Heinrich Moser on 15 April 1758.
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Entry from the 1767 census of Leitsinger recording Johannes Mosser in Household No. 82.
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