Auer (Louis)*

Spelling Variations: 
Auer (Louis)*
Ауеръ (Louis)*
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Anton Aue [sic] & Magdalena Schönberger were married on 28 May 1765 in Roßlau.

Anton Auer, a farmer, and his wife Magdalena settled in the Volga German colony of Louis on 14 June 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40.

Anton Auer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Louis in Household No. Ls23.

The death of Anton Auer 1826 is recorded on the 1834 census of Louis in Household No. 83.

The 1767 census records that Anton Auer came from the Tyrol region of Austria.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Auer family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- 1834 Louis Census (Household No. 83).
- 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): Ls23.
- 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): #839.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 89.

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Brent Mai

Volga Colonies