Georg Maurer (age 46), a ropemaker (Seiler), his wife Catharina Schrupp (age 47), and sons (Valentin, age 10; Jacob, age 5) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Georg Maurer, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 20 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
Valentin Maurer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br01.
The 1765 Worms list records that Georg Maurer came from the German village of Alzey. The 1767 census records that Georg Maurer came from the German village of Alzey in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Maurer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 129 (#397-400).
- 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): Br01.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 126.
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