This surname is incorrectly translated as Von Der Au by some researchers.
Christian Augner, a farmer, his wife Maria, and son Johann (age 3) arrived together from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Christian Augner and his wife Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christian Augner, a farmer, and his wife Sophia settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Augner came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Blecharoua [Блехароуа].
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 145.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1490, #1497.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1207-1209.
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