Johann Meier, a farmer, his wife Kunigunda, and daughter Anna (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Johann Meyer [sic], his wife Anna Cunigunda, and daughter Anna (age 4) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Johannes Meier, a carpenter (Zimmermann), and his wife Kunigunda are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 85.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Meier came from the German region of Bamberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Meier family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 367.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4711.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5616-5618.
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