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 from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
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.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 214.
- 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): #1487.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0869-0870.
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