Usinger (Müller)
Johannes Usener [sic] from Eichelhain & Anna Eliesabetha Eifert from Reppershaÿn in the area of Riedesel were married on 26 May 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Johann Usinger and his wife [Anna] Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Strelna under the command of Lieutenant Sornev.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19.
The Usinger siblings recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Households No. Ml05 & Ml27 are believed to be the children of Johannes & Anna Elisabeth Usinger.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Usinger was a farmer from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that he was a weaver (Weber) from the German village of Wallenrod [which is northeast of Eichelhain].
The name Usinger seems to be more common for the descendants of this family today.
- Die Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen vom Vogelsberg zur Wolga (Alsfeld, Wiesbaden: Die Albert-Schweitzer-Schule, 1990).
- Hessisches Staat Archive, Signatur F27 A 23/46.
- 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): Ml05, Ml12, Ml27.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #668.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 179.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4973.
Bill Pickelhaupt
Brent Mai