Johann Heinrich Meier, a blacksmith (Schmied), and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Mann und Frau (Husband & Wife) under the command of Skipper Daniel Berg.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 15 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 89 along with their newborn daughter, Anna Margaretha.
Anna Margaretha's father, Jacob Klamm, accompanied them on the same ship and also settled in Preuss. He is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 141 with a note that he is living with his son-in-law Heinrich Meier and his family.
Heinrich Meier and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps57.
The death of Heinrich Mayer [sic] (age 77) of Preuss is recorded on 2 May 1804 in the parish register of Preuss.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Meier came from the German village of Wintzenheim in Elsass.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 174.
- 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): Ps57.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 428.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1141.
Brent Mai