Bautz*
Daniel Friedrich Bautz, son of Andreas & Maria Catharina Bautz, was baptized 19 November 1738 in Rudersberg, Oberamt Schorndorf, Württemberg.
Anna Elisabetha Mertz, daughter of Johann Nicolaus Mertz & Anna Katharina Kraft, was born 31 March 1738 and baptized 3 April 1738 in Lißberg.
Johann Conrad, illegitimate son of Anna Elisabetha, was born in Lißberg on 22 February 1761 and baptized 25 February 1761. The baptism register records that Daniel Friedrich Bautz was the child's father.
Daniel Friedrich Bautz & Anna Elisabetha Mertz married in Lißberg in June 1761.
Daniel Friedrich Bautz & Anna Elisabetha Mertz had a second child in Lißberg, a daughter Anna Sophia, who was born 21 September 1763 and baptized 25 September 1763.
Daniel Friedrich Bautz apparently died. The lists of the recruiter Johann Facius describe Anna Elisabetha's household of 4 individuals as follows: Anna Elisabetha Metz [sic], 27 years old widow of Bautz from Lißberg, with one son 5-years-old and one daughter 3-years-old, with mother Anna Catharina Metz [sic], widowed.
The marriage of Anna Elisabetha Mertz from Lißberg & Johannes Asmus from Lißberg is recorded in the parish register of the Lutheran church in Büdingen on 25 June 1766.
Johann Asmus, his wife Elisabeth, [step-]children (Johann Konrad [Bautz], age 5; Anna Sophia [Bautz], age 3), and his mother-in-law Anna Katharina [Mertz née Kraft] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard the galliot Die Perle under the command of Skipper Thomson.
Wife [Anna] Elisabeth Bautz Asmus née Mertz, stepson Johann Konrad Bautz, and mother-in-law Anna Katharina Mertz née Kraft must have died in route from St. Petersburg to Saratov.
Johannes Asmus, a farmer, his [new] wife Julianna, [step-]daughter Sophia [Bautz] (age 5), and [step-]daughter Maria [surname not recorded] (age 2½) are recorded o nthe 1767 census of Walter in Household No. 71. They had arrived in Walter on 25 August 1767.
In 1788, Sophia Bautz moved to Kratzke and married Christoph Rachÿ [Reich]. Widowed Sophia Rachÿ [Reich] is reported in the 1798 census of Kratzke in Household No. 36 with a note that she and her children were living in Hussenbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bautz family among the Volga German colonies.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): Kr36, Mv2949.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #711.
- Parish register of Büdingen.
- Parish register of Lißberg.
- Parish register of Rudersberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 311.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6304.
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