Buschau
Spelling Variations:
Buschau
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Kaspar Buschau, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the command of Skipper Paul Adam Drath.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 5 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Buschau came from the German village of Kissingen [?] in the Würzburg region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 160.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5995.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai