Jakob Maurer, a farmer, his wife Eleonora, and children (Johann, age 18; Anton, age 13; Maria, age 11; Peter, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Jacob Meirer, his wife Eleonora, and children (Joh. Daniell, age 18; Anton, age 14; Sophia, age 11; Peter, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Jacob died en route.
In 1786, Johann Peter Maurer and his family moved from Kaneau to Schaffhausen.
Peter Maurer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh02.
As of 1788, Anton Maurer from Näb and his family were living in the Caucasus. In 1797, Anton Maurer and his family moved from Rosenheim to Kaneau. Anton Maurer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kaneau in Household No. Kn10.
The 1850 census of Rosental records in Household No. 25 that Karl Maurer arrived in Kaneau in 1847.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Maurer came from the German region of Hessen.
- 1850 Rosental Census (Household No. 25).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 683-684.
- 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): Kn10, Sh02, Mv1143, Mv2480.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5432.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3448-3453.
Brent Mai