Christian Maurer, a chimney builder (Ofenbauer), and his wife Gertrude arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 20 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 76.
Christian Maurer, his wife Gertrude, and daughter Katharina (age 4½) are recorded on the 1775 census of Kamenka in Household No. 59.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Maurer came from the German region of Isenburg while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Alzey.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Maurer family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Kamenka Census (Household No. 59).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 226.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 235.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1604.
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