Widower Johann Friedrich Bossauer, a farmer, and his children (Maria, age 14; Georg, age 9) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
Daughter Maria Katharina Felsing née Bossauer and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl55.
Son Georg Bossauer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Basel in Household No. Bs33.
The death of Georg Bossauer in 1816 is recorded on the 1834 census of Basel in Household No. 51.
Jakob Heinrich Bossauer, son of Georg Bossauer, died in 1822 in Basel. His widow [Elisabeth née Günther] returned to Katharinenstadt with her sons. Friedrich Bossauer is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 127.
The 1767 census records that Johann Friedrich Bossauer came from the German village of Mumelgot [?].
- 1834 Basel Census (Households No. 51, 53, 92, 100).
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 127).
- 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): Bs33, Pl55.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 350.
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