Widow Anna Meier arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Elisabeth Meier is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
She is believed to have married Elias / Heinrich Mühr with whom she had arrived in Oranienbaum and with whom she is recorded being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov.
Heinrich [sic] Mühr, a blacksmith ISchmied], and his wife Anna are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 46. They had arrived in Kaneau on 3 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anna Meier came from the German region of Dessau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Meier family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 560.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 253.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4403.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5453.
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