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Blässer

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Blässer
Blesser
Блєссеръ
Blezer
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Discussion & Documentation

Johann Peter Blässer, his wife, son, and 3 daughters immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Fridericia on 1 May 1760.

The parish register of Karup records on 24 August 1760 the baptism of Anna Christina Blezer [sic], daughter of Peter Blezer [sic], and her death on 1 September 1760.

In December 1760, they are recorded in the Danish colony of Friderichshoi.

In December 1762, they are recorded there with Johann Peter, his [unnamed] wife, [unnamed] sons (ages 5 & 2¼), and [unnamed] daughters (ages 11, 9, & 7).

They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 26 April 1763. They joined the migration to Russia.

Widower Peter Blaser [sic] and his children (Katharina Elisabeth, age 21; Elisabeth, age 19; Johannes, age 18) are recorded on the 1775 census of the Volga German colony of Schilling in Household No. 40.

The Eichhorns record that Johann Peter Blässer came from the German region of Hessen-Darmstadt.

Sources

- 1775 Schilling Census (Household No. 40).
- 1834 Schilling Census (Household No. 118).
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-133.
- 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): Sg041.
- Parish register of Karup [Denmark].

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