Baldauf*
Joseph Baldauf, a farmer, his wife Ursula, and [stepson] Tobias [Fromm] (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 15 July 1767. Joseph Baldauf, a baker (Bäcker), his wife Ursula, and stepson Tobias [Fromm] (age 18) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 7.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Baldauf came from the German village of Gemünden in the Würzburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Sm31.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2205.
Brent Mai