[Johann] Nikolaus Bauriedel, his wife Maria [Katharina Wilk], and children (Anna, age 11; Johanna, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 23 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 118.
Johann Nikolaus Bauriedel, his wife Maria Katharina née Wilk, and children (Anna Margaretha, age 21 [11?]; Anton Ludwig, age 7) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 150 along with a note that they have been beurlaubt [on leave] in Penza since 1770.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Bauriedel was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a tailor (Schneider).
The 1767 census records that Johann Nikolaus Bauriedel came from the German region of Frankfurt am Main and that Maria Katharina Wilk came from the German region of Homburg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johann nikolaus Bauriedel came from the German town of Frankfurt am Main and his wife came from Homburg vor der Höhe.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 150).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 301.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4490.
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