Johann Wendel Boßler, son of Johann Leonhard Boßler & Anna Elisabetha Kallenberg, was born 14 May 1705 in Lichtenberg and died there on 10 June 1748. He married in Groß-Bieberau on 25 November 1738 to Maria Christina Hofmann, daughter Georg Nicolaus Hofmann from Umstadt. She later married Johann August Reininger and died in Lichtenberg on 25 December 1781.
The following children born to Johann Wendel Boßler & Maria Christina Hofmann are recorded in the parish register of Lichtenberg: (1) Christian Eberhard, born 6 September 1739, died 17 May 1760; (2) Philipp Georg, born 11 February 1742; (3) Wilhelm Balthasar, born in 1744; (4) Johann Wendel, born in 1746, confirmed in 1760 in Groß-Bieberau; and (5) Johann Adam, born 6 May 1748.
Wendel Baschler [sic], a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann. [The Pleve publication of the Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wendel was a single man, but he is recorded on the original document with a wife.]
Wendel Bossler is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Wendel Bossler (age 21), a tailor (Schneider), and his 15-year-old wife Maria Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Straub in Household No. 36. They had arrived in Straub on 12 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wendel Bossler came from the German village of Lichtenberg. The 1767 census records that Wendel Bossler came from the German village of Lichtenberg in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bossler 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): 283.
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Lichtenberg (Online)
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 237-238.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2066.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1695.
Bill Pickelhaupt
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Wendel Bossler & his wife Anna.
Source: Brent Mai.