There are two Beier families that settled in the Volga German colony of Rosenheim on 27 July 1765. They both immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in the city of Schleswig together on 4 July 1761.
(1) Johann Gottfried Beier, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johann Gottfried, age 9; Hans Georg, age 7) arrived in Denmark.
The parish register of Wallsbüll [Denmark] records on 11 January 1763 the baptism of Maria Christina Beier, daughter of Johann Gottfried & Anna Maria Beier.
They were dismissed from the Danish colonies on 6 June 1763 and joined the migration to Russia.
Gottfried Beier, a farmer, his wife Maria Funkel, and sons (Johann Gottfried, age 14; Hans Georg, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 32.
(2) Johann Gottlieb Beier, a farmer, his wife Anna Sophia, and children ([a] Johann Friedrich, age 12; [b] Johann Gottlieb, age 7; [c] Christina Friederica, age 2-months) arrived in Denmark.
They were dismissed from the Danish colonies on 6 June 1763 and joined the migration to Russia.
Johann Gottlieb Beier and his family arrived in Rosenheim on 27 July 1765.
Johann Gottlieb Beier, a farmer, his wife Anna Sophia, and children (Johann Friedrich, age 18; Johann Gottlieb, age 14; Friederike, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 30.
[a] Johannes Beier, son of the deceased [Johann] Friedrich Beier, is recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm58 along with a note that he is living with his grandfather in the colony of Enders.
[b] Gottlieb Beier from Rosenheim is recorded on the 1798 census of Enders in Household No. En21.
[c] Christina Friederika Beier and her husband Heinrich Mühl are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm58.
The 1767 census records that both Johann Gottfried and Johann Gottlieb Beier came from the German village of Döbern in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
The Eichhorns record that both Johann Gottfried and Johann Gottlieb Beier came from Herzberg in Sachsen (Saxony).
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-122, B-123.
- 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): En21, Rm58.
- Parish register of Wallsbüll [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 69, 70.
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