According to his memoirs, schoolmaster Johann Georg Möhring records that his relative Martin Baßinger, a mason from the village of Wöhrd near Nürnberg, his wife Christina, and their daughters (Anna Maria & Dorothea) were traveling with him to Russia.
Johann Georg Möhring, a teacher (Schulmeister), his wife Christina, and daughters (Anna Maria, age 7; Dorothea, age 5) along with his mother-in-law Anna Stöslin, his sister-in-law Barbara and her husband Andreas Dalfuss, and the Baßinger family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber. [See Möhring & Dalfuss Families.]
After several weeks, they set out for Novgorod. Many colonists became ill during this part of the journey, and on 9 September 1766, Christina Stöslin Möhring died, and on 3 November 1766, Martin Baßinger died. Johann Georg Möhring married the widow Baßinger.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Jost on 19 August 1767 and he is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 39 along with the Baßinger daughters (Anna Maria, age 8; Dorothea, age 6).
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Baßinger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 271.
- Memoirs of Johann Georg Möhring [online]
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 204.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1966.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1538, #1539.
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