Johann Peter Meinhard, son of Johann Adam Meinhard & Catharina Lambmann, was baptized in Gedern on 9 October 1731.
He married in Gedern on 31 January 1758 to Anna Julianna Ruppel, daughter of Michael Ruppel.
The births/baptisms of 2 daughters born to Johann Peter Meinhard & Anna Julianna Ruppel are recorded in the parish register of Gedern: (1) Henriette Christine, born 1 December 1758, baptized 3 December 1758; and (2) Julianna Catharina, born 10 July 1762, baptized 12 July 1762.
Johann [Peter] Meinhard, his wife Julianna, and daughters (Henrietta, age 8½; Anna Katharina, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Reinwald on 24 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 57.
In 1788, Peter Meinhard and his family moved from Reinwald to Rosenheim.
Peter Meinhard his son Christian and their families are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm26.
The children of Christian Meinhard are recorded on the 1834 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 33.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Meinhard came from the German region of Stolberg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Gedern in the Stolberg region.
- 1834 Rosenheim Census (Household No. 33).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 232-233.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Rm26, Mv2400.
- Parish register of Gedern.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 45.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1655.
Brent Mai
Victor 2 & Galena from the Forum of Wolgadeutsche.net