Christian Meilinger, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and [step-]daughters (Anna Katharina [surname not recorded], age 18; Elisabeth [surname not recorded], age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Christian Meilinger, a farmer (Ackerbauer), his wife Katharina, and step-daughters (Katharina [surname not recorded], age 19; Elisabeth [surname not recorded], age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 104. They had arrived in Preuss on 15 July 1767.
The 1767 census records that they came from the German village of Öllingen oder Möllingen in Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Meilinger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Ps06.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 432.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2018.
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