Karl Mezieres, a locksmith (Schlosser), his wife Elisabeth, and son Jakob (age 17¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
Carl Messien [sic], his wife Elisabeth, and son Jacob (age 18¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 72.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Karl Mezieres came from Straßburg. The 1767 census records that Karl Mezieres came from Straßburg in the Alsace region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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