Johann Philipp Meckel, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 5½; Johannes, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Franz Nikolaus Schröder.
Johann Philip [sic] Merckel [sic] and his wife Maria recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Philipp Meckel, a farmer, his [new] wife Katharina, and [step-?]son (Georg, age 9 [surname not recorded]) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 11 along with orphan Johann Philipp Schulz (age 17) with whom they had arrived in Oranienbaum and with whom they had been traveling between St. Petersburg and Saratov. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Meckel and Schulz families.
The 1767 census records that Johann Philipp Meckel came from the German village of Roth.
It is possible that this family is connected to the following entires from the Movement Tables of the 1798 census.
In 1788, Johann Georg Mechler moved from Dönhof to Kutter.
In 1790, Johann Philipp Mechler left Grimm.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Mv0476, Mv0771.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6872 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 197.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4234-4235.
Brent Mai
