Was(s)en (Ober-Monjou)*
Spelling Variations:
Wassen (Ober-Monjou)*
Васенъ (Ober-Monjou)*
Wasen (Ober-Monjou)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Philipp Wasen, a farmer, and his wife Appolonia are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits that is appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 86 along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Philipp Wasen came from the German village of Bensheim [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wasen family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 366.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai