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Messing (Seelmann)

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Messing (Seelmann)
Месингъ (Seelmann)
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Christian Messing, a miller, his wife Anna, and children (Elisabeth, age 16; Anton, age 10; Anna, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.

The parents died after arriving in Russia. The surviving children settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 4 (Anton, age 10) along with the Andreas Walter family and Household No. 42 (Magdalena, age 9) along with the Anton Lateau family.

The 1798 census of Katharinenstadt records Anton Messing from Seelmann in Household No. Ka021.

The 1767 census does not record a relationship among the Messing, Walter, and Lateau families.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Messing was from Italy.

Sources

- 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): Ka021.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 150, 157.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2188.

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