Baumeister
Spelling Variations:
Baumeister
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Wilhelm Baumeister, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard the galliot Der Jan under the command of the skipper Markus Dragun.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 5 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 82.
The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Baumeister came from the German village of Palwes in the region of Köln.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 232.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5640.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai