Johann Gebauf [sic], a farmer, and his wife Rosalia arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johannes Gebauer, a farmer, and his wife Rosa are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 101) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Gebauf came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johann Gebauer came from the German village of Born in the Mainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gebauer 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): 688-687.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 369.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5471.
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