Altmeier
Mattias Altmeier, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Johann Christian, age 19; Maria Elisabeth, age 8; Johann Nikolaus, age 6; Leonhard, age 4; Anna Elisabeth, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
Mattias Altmeier, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Johannes, age 17; Maria Elisabeth, age 9; Johann Nikolaus, age 8; Johann Adam, age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Sewald in Household No. 39. They had arrived in Sewald on 20 August 1767.
The 1798 census records the widow of Adam Altmeier from Sewald living in Husaren (Household No. Hn26) along with her son, Johann Adam.
The 1767 census records that Matthias Altmeier came from the German village of Bruschied in the region of Trier.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Hn26, Sd27, Sd29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 175.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3334.
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