Johann Sebastian Maus, son of Johann Jacob Maus from Storndorff near Alsfeld in the Darmstadt area, died 24 June 1766 in Büdingen.
The parents, Johann Jakob & Eva Barbara Maus continued on to Russia. Jakob Maus, a tailor, his wife Eva, and son Johann (age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard a ship named Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They are recorded on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 71.
Johann Jakob Maus and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 2.
In 1796, Johann Heinrich Maus moved from Grimm to Moscow.
The 1767 census records that Jakob Maus came from the German region of Darmstadt.
Christian Jakob Maus from Grimm and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Wiesenmüller.
The parish register of Büdingen also records on 28 April 1766 the marriage of Elisabeth Maus from Sterndorff [sic] to Johann Conrad Krafft from Rudlos in the area of Riedesel. This couple has not been located among the Volga German colonies.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Maus came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 2).
- 1857 Wiesenmüller Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 628.
- 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): Gm122, Gm166, Mv0804.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1230.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 83.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1230.
Brent Mai