Ludwig Geier, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and daughter Maria (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Ludwig Geier (age 21), a farmer, his wife Katharina (age 30), and daughter Elisabeth (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 88. They had arrived in Dobrinka on 20 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Geier came from the German region of Hanau while the 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Pokhausen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Geier family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 261.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 338.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1873.
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