Johann Gottfried Burmeister, master of the Guardianship Office (Meister für Porzellanherstellung), his wife Anna Margaretha, son Johann (age 13), and stepchildren (Johann Muss, age 15; Anna Muss, age 8; Kaspar Muss, age 3; Dorothea Muss, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 53. They had settled there on 5 March 1767.
Johann Gottfried Burmeister, his wife Anna Margaretha née Lornek (widow Muss), children (Johann Gottfried, age 21; Johanna, age 7), and stepchildren (Johann Joachim Muss, age 23; Margaretha Cobradin[?] Muss, age 11; Dorothea Elisabeth Muss, age 9) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 166. [See Muss Family.]
The 1767 census records that Johann Gottfried Burmeister came from the German [Principality of] Ratzeburg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that he came from the [Principality of] Ratzeburg in [the Duchy] of Mecklenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Burmeister family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 166).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 287.
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