There are two LeMaire families who settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Bruno LeMaire, his wife Ursule DuBrille, and children (Ignace, François, Adelaide, Maxence, Marie Josephe) are recorded on a list of colonists dated May 1765.
Bruno LeMeer, a surgeon (Feldscher), his wife Anna Elisabeth, and children (Adeleide, age 17; Maxelinde, age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Franzosen in Household No. 66. They had settled in Franzosen on 23 May 1767.
The 1765 list of colonists records that Bruno LeMaire came from the French village of Béthune. The 1767 census records that Bruno LeMeer came from the French village of Betenne [?].
(2) Peter LeMaire, a single teacher (Lehrer), settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 16 May 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47.
The 1767 census records that Peter LeMaire came from the French city of Paris.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 47-48.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 451, 454.
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