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Meier (Unknown-2)*

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Spelling Variations: 
Meier (Unknown-2)*
Мейеръ (Unknown-2)*
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Unknown Colony
Pre-Volga Origin: 
Großen-Buseck, Kr. Gießen, Hessen
Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Meier, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of skipper Johann Joachim Janson.

Johann Heinrich Meyer and his wife Anna Elisabeth are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Heinrich Meier, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 51. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.

It is not known in which colony they eventually settled.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Meier came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Meier came from the German village of Großen-Buseck.

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): 361.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3941, #3940.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6025-6026.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies