The discovery that Bullers are documented via a land lease in Schönsee around the year 1695 means that the earlier explanation of the “all the Bullers are descendants of this family” should be revised. Although the most probable explanation—that this was the only family in the Przechovka church—remains unchanged, one should note that the other Buller families who began in this church did not move just to Volhynia in the late 1700s; other Buller families (all descendants of Heinrich, it would seem) settled elsewhere in the general region early on and thus became members of other churches.
In fact, the documented presence of Bullers in villages other than Deutsch Konopat (where we are told that Heinrich lived; see here) should lead us to revisit the question of where Heinrich resided when he emigrated from Switzerland to Royal Prussia in Poland, as well as where his immediate descendants are known to have resided.
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