Meier (Basel-1)
Johannes Meier, a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Jakob (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Joh. Meyer [sic] and his wife Christina are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Meier, a farmer, his wife Christina, and son Wilhelm (9-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 21.
In 1783, Wilhelm Meier moved from Basel to Schaffhausen. Wilhelm Meier from Basel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh42.
Wilhelm Meier and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schaffhausen in Households No. 48 & 71.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Meier came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Johannes Meier came from the German region of Worms.
- 1834 Schaffhausen Census (Households No. 48, 71).
- 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): Sh42.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 327.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5320.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3264-3265.
Brent Mai