Nicolas Bougy, a plowman (Laboureur), age 28, is recorded on a list of French colonists in September 1764.
Nikolaus Bougie, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Elisabeth Schmidt settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They and their daughters (Maria Franziska, age 1½; Maria, age ½) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Bougie came from the French village of Vilercotrie [Villers-Cotterêts?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 446.
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