Johann Ludwig May [sic] married in 1735 in Alsfeld to Anna Maria Hyll. They had two sons born in Alsfeld: (1) Georg Wilhelm, born 16 December 1742, died 6 November 1745; and (2) Johann Heinrich, born 12 September 1745, died 4 January 1748. Anna Maria May née Hyll died 4 April 1746 at the age of 37y4m3d.
Johann Ludwig May remarried 1 December 1746 to Anna Elisabetha Söhn. They had the following children born in Alsfeld: (1) Heinrich Ludwig, born 25 August 1747, died 27 August 1747; (2) Johann Georg, born 19 February 1750; and (3) Anna Catharina, born 26 July 1755.
Johann Ludwig May died in Alsfeld on 21 March 1766. Anna Elisabetha May née Söhn died 11 January 1772 in Alsfeld.
Georg Mai (age 20), a single farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 63 along with a note that he relocated to the neighboring colony of Schilling in 1768. He had arrived in Moor on 18 June 1767.
Johann Georg Mai, his wife Elisabeth, and their daughters (Katharina, age 4½; Louisa, age 1) are recorded on the 1775 census of the Volga German colony of Schilling in Household No. 78.
Georg Mai, his [new] wife, and daughters are recorded on the 1798 census of Schilling in Household No. Sg086.
The 1767 census records that Georg Mai came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Mai family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1775 Schilling Census (Household No. 78).
- 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): Sg086.
- Parish register of Alsfeld.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 172.
- Reiter, Andreas. Ortsfamlienbuch Alsfeld [Online]
Brent Mai
Wayne Bonner