Gruber
Agness Julianna Gruber (age 30), widow of Konrad Gruber, and her children (Anna Susanna, age 10; Georg Conrad, age 7; Egidius, age 5) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 5 September 1765.
Georg Konrad Gruber (age 9) and his siblings Ägidius [not Agatha] (age 7) & Anna (age 12) settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 20 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29 along with their stepfather, Johann Georg Wolf, and his family.
Konrad Gruber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br23.
Ägidius Gruber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br41.
The 1765 Worms list records that Widow Agness Julianna Gruber came from the German village of Neulußheim.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 114 (#036-039).
- 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): Br23, Br41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 123.
Brent Mai