There are two Meinicke families who traveled together from Germany to Russia and both settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johann Meinicke, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Johann Meinicke and his wife Maria are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Christian [sic] Meinicke, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughter Maria (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 18. They had settled in Boisroux on 7 June 1767.
Anton Meinicke and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx06.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Meinicke came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that Johann Christian Meinicke came from the German village of Zuchau [which is west of Dessau].
(2) Widow Louisa Meinicke and her son Martin (age 17½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Widow Louisa Meinicke evidently married Georg Dittler who had arrived aboard the same ship in Oranienbaum.
Georg Ditler [sic], his wife Louisa, and [step-]son Martin [Meinicke] (age 15) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Georg Dittler, a hunter (Jäger), his [new] wife Louisa, and [step-]son Martin [Meinicke] (age 17) settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 19. [See Dittler Family.]
Martin Meinicke is recorded on the 1798 census of Boisroux in Household No. Bx55. He does not appear to have had any surviving descendants.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that the widow Louisa Meinicke came from the German village of Oranienbaum [which is east of Dessau].
- 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): Bx06, Bx55.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 143.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 143.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1327, #1343.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1149-1150, #1330-1332.
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