Ignatius Heier, his wife Anna Christina, and sons (Ludwig, age 7; Bernhard, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Ignatius Heier, his wife Anna Christina, and sons (Bernhardus, age 7; Franz Gabriel, age 2¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that mother Anna Christina and son Frantz Gabriel died in route.
Ignatius Hauer [sic], a farmer, his [new] wife Margaretha, and son Bernhard (age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 34 along with his stepchildren (Kaspar Meier, age 12; Eva Meier, age 9).
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Ignatius Hauer came from the German village of Neufeld.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hauer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 832.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6674 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 269.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3762-3765.
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