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 a ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Christian Meylinger [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
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 Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Meilinger came from the German region of Oranien. The 1767 census records that Johannes Christian Meilinger came from the German village of Öllingen oder Möllingen in Nassau. [This family was thought to be from Ailertchen, Kr. Westerwald, Rheinland-Pfalz - with documents from the parish register of Mariä Heimsuchung (Visitation of Mary) Catholic Church in Höhn. However, it has been determined that this family remained in Ailertchen.]
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.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 278.
- 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.
- Parish register of Mariä Heimsuchung (Visitation of Mary) Catholic Church in Höhn.
- 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.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1780.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the parish register of Mariä Heimsuchung (Visitation of Mary) Catholic Church in Höhn recording the baptism of Johannes Christian Meilinger on 8 August 1734.
Source: Anonymous2.
Entry from the parish register of Mariä Heimsuchung (Visitation of Mary) Catholic Church in Höhn recording the marriage of widower Johannes Christian Meilinger from Ailertchen to widow Anna Katharina Heidrig from Dreisbach on 6 February 1765.
Source: Anonymous2.
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Christian Meilinger and his family.
Source: Anonymous2.
Entry from the 1767 census of Preuss recording the family of Christian Meilinger.
Source: Anonymous2.