Meier (Basel)*
Philipp Meier, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughters (Anna, age 5; Margaretha, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Phillip [sic] Meier, his wife Catharina, and daughters (Catharina, age 3; Anna Maria, age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Philipp Meier and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Basel in Household No. Bs43.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Meier came from the German region of Hessen.
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Philipp Meier family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Bs43.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4556.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5350-5353.
Brent Mai