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Matelheim*

Spelling Variations: 
Matelheim*
Mittelhein*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Semenovka
Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Mittelhein [sic], a stonemason, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Hermann Anderson.

Georg Matelheim [sic], a single farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767.  He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Mittelhein came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Georg Matelheim came from the German village of Rar [?] in the Kurmainz region.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 188.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6567.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies