George Michael Bauer Jr. (abt. 1732 - aft. 1789)

Born about Sep 1732 in Böckingen, Stadt Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Roman Empire

Descendants

Died after 1789 after about age 56 in Merkel, Saratov, Volga, Russia [uncertain]

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Biography

George Michael Bauer Jr. was a Volga German.

George Michael Bauer Jr. has German Roots.

Georg Michael Bauer, Jr. was born in September 1732 in Böckingen, Stadt Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg to Georg Michael Sr. & Anna Margaretha Vielhauer. He was baptized on 26 September 1732 in the Böckingen Evangelical Church.

His family immigrated to Denmark and then later immigrated to the Volga German colonies settling in Dönhof.

In 1789, he moved from Dönhof to Merkel.

Georg Michael & David Wilhelm Bauer were sons of Georg Michael Sr. & Anna Margaretha Vielhauer. Both of these boys were baptized in the Böckingen Evangelical Church: Georg Michael on 26 September 1732, and David Wilhelm on 14 March 1744.

Georg Michael Sr. and his family emigrated to Denmark. They departed from Altona, Duchy of Holstein, on 14 June 1762, under the leadership of Adam Saam, and arrived in the city of Flensburg, Duchy of Schleswig, on 19 June 1762.

Sons Georg Michael & David Wilhelm Bauer lived in Denmark until 7 January 1765 when they and their families emigrated to Russia. The Bauers arrived in the colony of Dönhof on 21 July 1766, and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Households No. 33 (Georg Michael) and No. 35 (Wilhelm).

In 1789, Johann Jakob and Georg Michael Bauer moved from Dönhof to Merkel.

Wilhelm Bauer is recorded on the 1798 census of Dönhof in Household No. Dh53.

Christina Beck, widow of an unnamed Bauer from Dönhof, is recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt076 along with her son Johann Georg Bauer who is noted as working in Dönhof.

Leonhard Bauer from Dönhof is recorded on the 1798 census of Kolb in Household No. Ko17.

Descendants of this Bauer family also moved to Frank and Beideck.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Bauer|Dönhof|VGI|Hirt/Hein/Mai
   • Eichhorn, Alexander; Eichhorn Jacob & Mary. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Steinmeier, 2012): 307/08, 341/42, & 666.
   • 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): Dh031, Ko17, Mr16, Mr28, Wt076, Mv0479.
   • Parish records of Böckingen (LDS Film No. 816315).
   • Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 349-350.