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Meitner*
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Discussion & Documentation
Andreas Meitner, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Barbara, and stepdaughters [surname not recorded] (Anna Maria, age 12; Katharina, age 2½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwed in Household No. 12. They had settled in Schwed on 1 July 1766.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Meitner came from the German village of Brünn. His wife Anna Barbara came from the German region of Zweibrücken.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 143.
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