Mosebach / Mussbach*
Wilhelm Mussbach, a widower farmer from Hessen, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 11 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 73.
The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Mosebach came from the German region of Hessen-Kassel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 220.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2571.
Brent Mai