Andreas Maurer [sic] , a weaver (Weber), his wife Barbara, and son Samuel (age ¼-year) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Son Samuel Mauer and his family, including his mother Barbara, are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km042.
Michael Mauer, his brothers (Georg, Joseph, & Jakob), and their families are recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Households No. 118, 123, and 152.
Jakob Mauer is recorded on the 1850 census of Kamenka in Household No. 172 along with a note that he moved to Hildmann.
The death of Jakob Mauer in 1847 is recorded on the 1850 census of Hildmann in Household No. 85.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Maurer [sic] name from the German region of Franken (Franconia).
Several translations have recorded this surname as Maurer, but Mauer is correct.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Households No. 118, 123, 152).
- 1850 Hildmann Census (Household No. 85).
- 1850 Kamenka Census (Households No. 124, 129, 172).
- 1857 Kamenka Census (Households No. 148, 153, 214).
- 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): 78.
- 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): Km042.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #263.
Brent Mai