Messing (Näb)*
Kaspar Messing, a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina, and daughters (Katharina, age 14; Elisabeth, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.
Caspar Messing, his wife Catharina, and daughters (Anna Cath., age 14; Elisabeth, age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 101 along with a note that they reclocated to the colony of Näb in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Messing came from the German village of Borgatfeld [?] in the region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 370.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3932.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5240-5243.
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