Büchner

Spelling Variations
Bichner
Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Ober-Ramstadt, Hessen, Germany
Description

Johann Georg Büchner was born in 1743. He was living in Schafheim at the time that he married on 6 March 1764 in Ober-Ramstadt to Dorothea Sophia Kuhlmann, daughter of Johann Andreas Kuhlmann & Susanna Maria Lämmermann. Dorothea Sophia had been born in Ober-Ramstadt on 7 November 1743.

They immigrated to Russia arriving in the Volga German colony of Laub on 12 Jul y 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 3 along with children Johann (age 4) and Katharina (age 1).
On the 1798 Census of Laub, their children are living in Households No. Lb05 and Lb41.

Sources

Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Ober-Ramstadt (Online)

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).

Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 20.

Researchers
Bill Pickelhaupt