Two Neubauer families settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 7 June 1767. They both arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Christoph Neubauer is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christoph Neubauer, a farmer, and his [new] wife Dorothea [née Schönfelder] are recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 11.
(2) Single Michael Neubauer is recorded on the 1767 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. 86.
In 1786, Michael Neubauer moved from Ober-Monjou to Hussenbach. By 1798, he was living in Katharinenstadt.
The death of Michael Neubauer in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 103. He had no known surviving male lines.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Christoph and Michael Neubauer came from the German village of Adelsberg.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 103).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 200, 201.
- 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): Ka065, Mv2077.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 292, 308.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1365, #1371.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1351.
Brent Mai