Michael Bähr, a hosier (Strumpfwirker), his wife Marta, and children (Friedrich, age 20; Katharina, age 14; Maria, age 11; Heinrich, age 3) 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.
Michael Bähr, his wife Martha, and children (Heinrich, age 20; Catharina, age 14; Maria, age 11; Friedrich, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 33.
In 1781, widower Andreas Bähr moved from Orlovskaya to Nieder-Monjou.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Andreas Michael Bähr came from the German region of Magdeburg.
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- 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): Or23, Mv2146.
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Brent Mai