Johann Meier, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Johann Heinrich Meyer and his wife Anna Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Heinrich Meier, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 51. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.
It is not known in which colony they eventually settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Meier came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Meier came from the German village of Großen-Buseck.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Meier family among the Volga German colonies.
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