Georg Beier, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and daughters (Rosina, age 13; Maria, age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Georg Bier [sic], his wife Dorethea, and daughters (Sophia, age 13; Maria, age 10¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Daughter Anna Margaretha Beier (age 11) is recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 56 along with Ernst Mack and his wife. [See Mack Family.] There is no relationship recorded between the Beier and Mack families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Beier came from the German region of Dessau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Beier family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 218.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 153.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1527.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0911-0914.
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