There are two Maurer families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
They both settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the two families. Their relationship, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johann Peter Maurer from the former county of Hachenburg & Maria Elis. Schwartz from Muntzfelden were married on 21 April 1766 in the City Lutheran Church of Friedberg.
Johann [Peter] Maurer, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 125.
(2) [Johann] Adam Maurer arrived in Oranienbaum as a single farmer. He is recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 126 along with his new wife Anna Elisabeth and her three daughters (Anna Katharina, age 15; Juliana, age 13; Anna Elisabeth, age 10) [surname not recorded].
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both of these Maurer families came from the German region of Hagenburg. The 1767 census records that they came from the German village of Hetzerode [?] near Hessenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Maurer family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 150.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #323.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 340.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #927.
Brent Mai