Johann Heinrich Büchsenschütz, son of Johann Michael Büchsenschütz, married in Rückingen on 2 June 1763 to Catharina Elisabeth Straub, daughter of Johannes Straub. They had two children in Rückingen: (1) Catharina Elisabeth, born 26 April 1764; and (2) Maria Catharina, born 22 December 1765, died 6 January 1766.
Johann Heinrich Büchsenschütz, a mechanic, his wife Katharina, daughter Katharina (age 3), and mother Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard a ship named Die Perle under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen along with servant Adam Maÿ.
Adam Maÿ is recorded on the 1767 census in the Volga German colony of Kolb. The Büchsenschütz family does not appear to have been recorded on the 1767 census, but daughter Katharina is recorded on the 1798 Census in the Volga German colony of Bauer (Household No. Br25) as being "from Kolb."
The Büchsenschütz surname does not appear to have continued among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 166.
- 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): Br25.
- Parish register of Rückingen.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1068.
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