Sauer (Volmer)
Corneius Sauer (age 36), a farmer, his wife Elisabeth Brand (age 36), and children (Johannes, age 6; Phiipp, age 3; Anton, age 1) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms.
Kornelius Sauer, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and son Johannes (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 40. They had settled there on 18 July 1767.
Johannes Sauer [erroneously translated as Hauer in some sources] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm34.
The 1765 Worms list records that Cornelius Sauer came from the German village of Volxheim. The 1767 census records that Kornelius Sauer came from the German region of Bamberg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 130 (#421-425).
- 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): Vm34.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 292.
Brent Mai
David Haspert