Daniel Maus, a farmer, his wife Anna, and [step-]daughters (Anna, age 12; Margaretha, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Daniel Maus, his wife Anna, and stepdaughters (Anna Elisabeth, age 15; Anna Margaretha, age 7) [surname not recorded] immigrated to Russia from the German village of Niederzell.
They arrived at the port of Oranienbaum from Lübeck on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love and Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Daniel Mauss [sic], his wife Elisabet, and children (Anna, age 12; Margaretha, age 6; Georg, born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Daniel Maus, a farmer, his wife Anna, and stepdaughters (Anna Elisabeth, age 15; Anna Margaretha, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 38 along orphan Anna Kunigunda Heil (age 13). [See Heil Family.] They had arrived in Nieder-Monjou on 7 June 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list records that Daniel Maus came from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that Daniel Maus came from the German region of Hannover.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Maus family among the Volga German colonies.
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