Johann Heinrich Hartleben, his wife Johanna, son (Johann [Jakob], age 6), and [step-]children (Johann [Meier], age 18; Franz [Meier], age 14) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
Heinrich Meier (age 18) and his brother Franz Joseph (age 15) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 33 along with their mother Dorothea and her husband (Heinrich Hartleben). [See Hartleben Family.]
[Franz] Joseph Meier and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Meinhard in Household No. Mn04.
The death of Joseph Meier in 1817 is recorded on the 1834 census of Meinhard in Household No. 76.
Neither the Oranienbaum passenger list nor the 1767 census record from where the Meier family came.
- 1834 Meinhard Census (Household No. 76).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 863.
- 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): Mn04.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 168.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7012.
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