Augustin Tusker, a single day-laborer (Lohnarbeiter), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 206.
Augustin Tusker (age 29), a single saddler (Sattler), is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 187 along with a note that he has been in Saratov since 1774.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Augustin Tusker came from the German village of Neukirchen in the region of Schlesien (Silesia).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 187).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 318.
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