Jakob Mehling, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and son Johann (age 11) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Kleine Andreas under the command of Skipper Jakob Jansen.
Jakob Mehling, a farmer, and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 25 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 49.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Mehling came from the German region of Durlach. The 1767 census records that Jakob Mehling came from the German village of Boleig [?] in the Durlach region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Mehling family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 372.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 306.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2825.
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