Peter Mehlinger, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Susanna, and sons (Jakob and Johannes) settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 6 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38 along with two additional children (Maria, age 2; Andreas, age 1).
Jakob Mehlinger from Kamenka and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb03.
Johannes Mehlinger, son of Jakob Mehlinger, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Göbel in Household No. 93.
Gottfried Mehlinger, son of Jakob Mehlinger, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Göbel in Household No. 97.
The 1767 census records that Peter Mehlinger came from the German village of Sierck in France.
- 1834 Göbel Census (Households No. 93, 97).
- 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): Gb03, Km035.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 225.
Brent Mai