Sauer (Kaneau)*
Spelling Variations:
Sauer (Kaneau)*
Сауеръ (Kaneau)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Heinrich Sauer, a cabinet maker (Tischler), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 9.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Sauer came from the German region of Nassau-Usingen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sauer family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 245.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai