Kaiser (Messer)
Heinrich Peter Kaÿser, son of Conrad & Anna Christina Kaÿser, was baptized on 5 March 1715 in Büches. He married there on 11 April 1739 to Anna Margaretha from Binsaches [perhaps Bindsachen].
The baptisms of the following children born to Heinrich Peter & Anna Margaretha Kaÿser have been located in the parish register of Büches: (1) [a] Anna Margaretha, born 30 May 1744; (2) [b] Johann Conrad, born 22 May 1746; (3) [c] Anna Elisabetha, born 4 August 1748; and (4) Johannes, born 26 December 1753.
The Kaiser family arrived in the Volga German colony of Messer on 18 June 1767.
Peter Kaiser, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Johannes, age 17; Christian, age 14; Eleonora, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 47.
[a] Anna Margaretha Henkel née Kaiser and her family are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 49.
[b] Johann Konrad Kaiser and his wife Gertraud [Müller] are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 48.
[c] Anna Elisabeth Michel née Kaiser and her family are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 33.
The 1767 census records that Peter Kaiser came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 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): Mo17, Ms62, Ms68.
- Parish register of Buches.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 142, 143, 164.
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner