Simon Meier, his wife Anna, and children (Simon, age 20; Katharina, age 18 [sic]; Elisabeth, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a ship named Der Friede (Peace) under the command of Skipper Hans Karck.
Simon Meier, his wife Anna, and children (Simon, age 20; Katharina, age 12; Elisabeth, age 9) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Meier family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #7097.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4573-4577.
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