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Meier (Unknown-1)*

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Spelling Variations: 
Meier (Unknown-1)*
Мейеръ (Unknown-1)*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Unknown Colony
Pre-Volga Origin: 
Wien (Stadt), Wien, Austria
Discussion & Documentation: 

Michael Meier, a mason (Maurer), his wife Katharina, and son Johannes (age 3-months) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 40. They had arrived in Paulskaya on 17 August 1767.

It is not known in which colony they eventually settled.

The 1767 census records that Michael Meier came from the town of Wien [Vienna].

There are no known surviving male lines of this Meier family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 359.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies