Heinrich Mossmann, a farmer, his wife Maria Christina, and children (Johann Nikolaus, age 13; Ludwig, age 11; Maria Barbara, age 8; Peter, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 11. They had settled in Volmer on 18 July 1766.
Nikolaus Mossmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm06.
Nikolaus Mossmann from Volmer and his son are recorded on the 1811 census of Hölzel in Household No. 43 along with a note that Nikolaus had arrived in Hölzel from Volmer in 1801.
Ludwig Mossmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm25.
In 1789, Peter Mossmann moved from Volmer to Schuck.
Peter Mossmann from Schuck and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Degott in Household No. Dg13.
The 1897 census of Degott records in Household No. 9 that siblings Johannes Peter Mossmann, Johannes Mossmann, and Katharina Mossmann, children of Michael Mossmann, are in Sewald.
The 1897 census of Degott records in Household No. 22 that Wilhelm Mossmann, son of Johannes Mossmann, is in Merkel.
The 1897 census of Degott records in Household No. 56 that the grandchildren (Barbara, age 10; Pius, age 6) of Lorenz Mossmann are in the colony of Volmer.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Mossmann came from the German village of Kusel in the Zweibrücken region.
- 1811 Hölzel Census (Household No. Hz43).
- 1897 Degott Census (Household No. 9, 22, 56).
- 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): Dg13, Vm06, Vm25, Mv2928.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 287.
Brent Mai