Mauer (Kamenka)
Andreas Maurer [sic] , a weaver, his wife Barbara, and son Samuel (age ¼-year) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot Katharina Eleonora under the Skipper Peter Röder.
Son Samuel Mauer and his family, including his mother Barbara, are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km042.
Michael Mauer, his brothers, and their families are recorded on the 1834 census of Kamenka in Households No. 118, 123, and 152.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Maurer [sic] name from the German region of Franken (Franconia).
Several translations have recorded this surname as Maurer, but Mauer is correct.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Households No. 118, 123, 152).
- 1850 Kamenka Census (Households No. 124, 129, 172).
- 1857 Kamenka Census (Households No. 148, 153, 214).
- 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): Km042.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #263.
Brent Mai