Joseph Niedermeier, a hunter (Jäger), and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian River) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Herzog on 1 September 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Schäfer in 1768.
In 1786, Joseph Niedermeier and his family moved from Schäfer to Graf.
The 1834 census of Graf records in Household No. 34 that Konrad Niedermeier moved from Graf to Zug in 1825.
The 1834 census of Graf records in Household No. 34 that Georg Peter Niedermeier moved from Graf to Köhler in 1827.
Peter Niedermeier and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Köhler in Household No. 242 along with a note that they relocated to the daughter colony of Marienfeld in 1852.
Peter Niedermeier from Köhler and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Joseph Niedermeier came from the German town of München in the region of Bayern (Bavaria).
- 1834 Graf Census (Household No. 34).
- 1857 Köhler Census (Household No. 242).
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- 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): 87.
- 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): Gf33, Mv2513.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 87.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #351.
Brent Mai