Bauer (Bauer-2)
Caspar Bauer (age 29), a farmer, his wife Julianna Sophia Bofung (age 26), and son Johann Georg (age 2) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 26 August 1765. A note on this list records that wife Julianna Sophia Bofung died in Hamburg in route to Russia.
Kaspar Bauer, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and daughter Katharina (age 3-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 2. They had arrived in Bauer on 20 July 1766.
The widow of Kaspar Bauer and her sons are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br09.
It is presumed that Johann Kaspar Bauer whose family is recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br10 is also a son of Kaspar Bauer.
The 1765 Worms list records that Caspar Bauer came from the German village of Hertelshausen [?]. The 1767 census records that Kaspar Bauer came from the German village of Erzenhausen in the Kurpfalz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 120 (#198-200).
- 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): Br09, Br10.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 115.
Brent Mai