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Bölsch

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Belsch
Бельшъ
Bölsch
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Discussion & Documentation

Peter Anton Beltsch [sic] & Dorothea Elisabeth Winkler were married on 6 April 1766 in Roßlau.

Anton Bölsch and his wife Dorothea arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.

Anton Belsch [sic] and his wife Magdalena are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 70.

Sons Andreas and Georg are recorded on the 1834 census of Boisroux in Households No. 41 & 101.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Bölsch was a hosier from the German village of Magdeburg while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer from the region of Zerbst.

Sources

- 1834 Boisroux Census (Households No. 41 & 101).
- 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): Bx36.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #903.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 156.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1352.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0647-0648.

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