Gottfridt [sic] Meyer [sic], his wife Barbara, and children (Wilhelm, age 12; Johann, age 7; Georg, age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that both parents died in route.
Orphan Wilhelm Meier (age 13) is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census. He is recorded in the Household (No. 45) along with Philipp & Anna Griesbach. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Meier and Griesbach families.
Wilhelm Meier is assumed to have settled in the colony of Luzern which is where the Griesbach family settled.
The 1767 census does not record from where Wilhelm Meier came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Meier family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 358.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5821-5825.
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