Widow Elisabeth Langmeier and her sons (Andreas, age 16½; Elias, 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Elisabeth remarried to Max Kleiber.
Max Kleber (age 37), a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and [step-]sons (Andreas [Langmeier], age 16; Elias [Langmeier], age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dinkel in Household No. 8. They arrived in Dinkel on 12 May 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Margaretha Langmeier came from the German region of Regensburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 79.
- 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): Dn32.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 299.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #270.
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