Johann Bauer, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 6 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2 along with the orphan children of Johann Kettler (Johann Gottlieb Kettler, age 17; Sophia Kettler, age 16). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Bauer and Kettler families.
Johann Bauer and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km026.
The death of Johann Bauer is recorded in the parish register of Kamenka in November 1804.
The 1767 census records that Johann Bauer came from the German village of Pressburg.
- 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): Km026.
- Parish register of Kamenka.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 216.
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