Adam Meier, a farmer, his wife Eva, and sons (Johann, age 14; Heinrich, age 6; Nikolaus, 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.
Adam Meyer [sic], his wife Eisabeth, and sons (Johann Christoph, age 14; Joh. Heinrich, age 6; Philipp Franz, age ¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Adam Meier, a cooper (Fassbinder), his wife Eva, and sons (Johann, age 15; Johann Heinrich, age 6; Philipp, age 1) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 13. They had arrived in Paulskaya on 3 August 1767.
[This family may have originally settled in Kind because everyone with whom they were travelling and with whom they are listed on the 1767 census settled in Kind. However, the sons are found in 1798 in the census of the colony of Katharinenstadt.]
(1) Christoph Meier and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka061.
The death of Christoph Meier in 1826 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 99.
Christoph has no known surviving male lines among the Volga German colonies.
(2) Heinrich Meier and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka083.
The death of Heinrich Meier in 1822 is recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 142.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Adam Meier came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Bonengen [?] in the region of Pfalz.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 99, 142).
- 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): Ka061, Ka083.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 354.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5497.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3128-3132.
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