Basser
Spelling Variations:
Basser
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
The baptism of Johann Jacob Basser, son of Johannes Adam & Margaretha Basser, is recorded on the parish register of Orb on 29 April 1764 with Johannes Jacob Weisbecker as his godfather.
Adam Basser, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and son Jakob (age 4-weeks) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 118 along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Luzern in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Adam Basser came from the German village of Orb.
Sources:
- Ortsfamilienbuch Bad Orb (ofb.genealogy.net).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 373.
Researcher(s):
Brent Mai