Metzler (Wittmann)

There are many Johannes Metzler's in the German village of Orb. This one is the correct age, his father was also a baker, both of his parents were deceased, he is the only son of his parents, and no further information about him is recorded in Orb. Further research is needed to confirm this conclusion.

Johannes Metzer, son of Philipp Metzler (17 May 1708 - 3 June 1761) & Anna Maria Reinhard (28 May 1710 - 24 December 1742), was baptized in St. Martin's Catholic Church in Orb on 16 April 1737.

Johann[es] Metzler, a single baker (Bäcker), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.

Johann Metzler is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johannes Metzler, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Maria [Rupp] are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 143) that was attached to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies. Also recorded in this household is orphan Nikolaus Rupp who is believed to be Maria's nephew, with both of whom Johannes Metzler had arrived in Oranienbaum.

This family is believed to have settled in the Volga German colony of Wittmann because the orphan Nikolaus Rupp is recorded on the 1798 census of Schönchen (Sn18) as being from Wittmann.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Metzler came from the German village of Orb.