Ludwig Gaurer, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Ludwig Gaurer (age 20), a cooper (Böttcher), and his [new] wife Katharina Elisabeth (age 20) are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 32. They had arrived in Lauwe on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Gaurer came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Ludwig Gaurer came from the German village of Willmandingen in the Württemberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gaurer 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): 754.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 44.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6034.
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