Spelling Variations
Bissing
Бисингъ
Bensing
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Wilhelm Bissing, a blade sharpener (Scherenschleifer), and his wife Andreanna Hegelmann settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 60.
The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Bissing came from the Dutch town of Amsterdam in Holland.
Sources
- 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): Ka077.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 289.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
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Immigrated to the following locations
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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Immigration Locations
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