There are two Mahr families that settled in the Volga German colony of Rohleder on 14 July 1766. Their relationship to each other is not recorded on the 1767 census.
(1) Katharina Mahr (age 19) is recorded on the 1767 Rohleder census in Household No. 29 along with her mother and stepfather, Nikolaus Junker.
(2) Nikolaus Mahr, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria (from the German region of Mainz) are recorded on the 1767 Rohleder census in Household No. 40.
Nikolaus Mahr and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rohleder in Household No. Rl23.
In 1793, Nikolaus Mahr, son of Nikolaus Mahr (senior), moved from Rohleder to Luzern.
Nikolaus Mahr from Rohleder and his son are recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz12.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Mohr came from the German village of Rastatt in the Baden-Durlach region.
- 1834 Rohleder Census (Households No. 34, 49, 81).
- 1857 Rohleder Census (Households No. 123, 124
- 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): Lz12, Rl23.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 54, 57.
Brent Mai