An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following going to Russia:
Christian Tauer [sic], a thresher (Drescher) from Wörlitz; along with Wulff and Freywald, Tauer surely intends to move to Russia because he openly admits it and is selling his belongs. All three are negligent, lazy fellows. They have no debts.
Christian Dauer, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum along with a servant Johanna Henning on 18 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 54.
The widow and children of Christian Dauer are recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo07.
The 1767 census records that Christian Dauer came from the German village of Ramsin [?] in the Anhalt-Dessau region.
- 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): Jo07.
- 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): #1161.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 207.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1108.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 91.
Brent Mai