Johann Bauer, a tailor, his wife Antonetta [sic], and children (Johann, age 16¼; Katharina, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Johann Georg Bauer, his wife Anna Netta [sic], and children (Johann Georg, age 14; Anna Catrina, age 8) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that father Johann Georg Bauer died en route.
Georg Bauer (age 16) and his sister Katharina (age 8), children of the deceased Georg Bauer, are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 180 along with their stepfather, Johann Philipp Bäcker.
The 1767 census does not record from where Georg Bauer came.
Georg Bauer and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr128 along with a note that he is blind.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Bauer came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bauer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 627.
- 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): Nr128.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 277.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5035.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2570-2573.
Brent Mai