Menet*
Anton Menet, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Anton Menne [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Anton Menet, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 120.
Anton Menet and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb16.
The 1767 census records that Anton Menet came from the German village of Diemel [?] in the Paderborn region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Nb16.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 374.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4773.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3643.
Brent Mai