Joseph Meisner, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Joseph Meissner [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony he settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Meisner came from the German region of Bayreuth.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Meisner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4599.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5888.
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