Johann Meissel, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Johann Meissel and his wife Christina Maria are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
This is believed to be the same family that settled in Lauwe with the surname Meisner.
Johann[es] Meisner, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha are recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 3. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
The widow and children of Johann[es] Meisner are recorded on the 1798 census of Lauwe in Households No. Lw15 & Lw22.
In 1790, Johannes (junior) Meisner moved from Lauwe to Jost. His family is recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo36.
The 1767 census records that Johann[es] Meisner came from the German region of Bayreuth.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 657.
- 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): Jo36, Lw15, Lw22, Mv1522.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 38.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5218 (p.335).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2036-2037.
Brent Mai