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Bossen*

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Bossen*
Бозенъ*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation

Johann Friedrich Bonsen [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna, age 15; Johann, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

Johann Friedrich Bossen, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna, age 15; Johann, age 7) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

It is not known in which colony this Bossen family settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list does not record from where Johann Friedrich Bossen came.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Bossen family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources

- Oranienbaum passenger list #6880 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4247-4250.

Contributor(s) to this page

Brent Mai

Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Johann Friedrich Bonsen [sic] and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.

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