Baysingers in Pre-French Revolutionary Alsatian Military

Baysingers in the Military, Before the French Revolution

These names come from the Haut-Rhin site, Centre De'partamental d'Histoire des Families. The site explains "some young men were sorted to become soldiers. Of course, there were a few conditions:

      to be between 16 and 40 years old
      to live alone, or be widowed
      without children
      to be five feet length [tall?]
      not to be crippled

The term of service was 6 years, unless the young man could afford a replacement. If this was done, a contract might be found in the notarial records.

YEAR LAST NAME 1  FIRST NAME 1  AGE1  WORK 

1743 BUESINGER    Fran�ois Joseph     mari�    (no age was shown)

1766 BURSINGER    Jean          25    journalier 

1766 BURSINGER    S�bastien     25    journalier 

1766 BIRSINGER    Pierre        20    journalier 

1766 BUESSINGER   Jean          19    journalier 

1766 BIRSINGER    Luc           30    laboureur 

1766 BOESINGER    Henri         26    tisserand 

1766 BOESINGER    Joseph        19    ma�on 

1766 BESSINGER    Michel        18    laboureur 

1766 BRISINGER    Christian     24    laboureur