Usinger (Stephan)
Nikolaus Usinger (some translations record Gesinger), a farmer, his wife Martha, and children (Maria, age 22; Andreas, age 20; Johann, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Johann Nicolas Isinger [sic], his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Maria Elisabeth, age 22; Johann Andreas, age 20; Johann Nicolaus, age 18) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that the father died en route.
Andreas Usinger, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and mother Maria Elisabeth (age 52) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stephan in Household No. 26. They had settled there on 24 August 1767.
The widow and children of Andreas Usinger from Stephan are recorded on the 1798 census of Müller in Household No. Ml12.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Issinger came from the German region of Erbach. The 1767 census records that Andreas Usinger came from the German village of Reichenbach.
- 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): Ml12.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 226.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2079.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2288-2292.
Brent Mai