Michael Bauer, a farmer, his wife Maria, children (Anna, age 9; Michael, age 6; Georg, age ½), and his mother Anna arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Michael Bauer (age 39), a farmer, his wife Dorothea Leopold (age 29), and daughter Katharina (age 2-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leichtling in Household No. 14. They had arrived in Leichtling on 14 June 1767.
Michael Bauer, his brother Melchior, and their families from Leichtling are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Michael Bauer came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Michael Bauer came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 106-107.
- 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): Lg08, Lg14.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 54.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #546.
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