Heinrich Meier, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Barbara, age 15; Wilhelm, age 12; Johannes, age 6) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census in Household No. 66 along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Luzern in 1768.
In 1782, Wilhelm Meier moved from Luzern to Wittmann.
Wilhelm Meier from Luzern is recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm28.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Meier came from the German village of Orb.
- 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): Wm28, Mv1606.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 362.
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