Meng
Johann Meng, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Katharina, and sons (Johannes, age 8; Christoph, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Messer in Household No. 10. They had arrived in Messer on 7 July 1766.
In 1795, Johannes Meng and his family moved from Kratzke to Messer.
The 1767 census records that the Meng family came from the German district of Kurpfalz.
[There is a Johannes Meng and family that migrated to Schleswig-Holstein (Denmark), arriving in Flensburg on 15 May 1762. They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 10 June 1763. Further research is needed to determine whether this is the same Johannes Meng who settled in Messer.]
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1071.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ms07, Ms40, Ms55, Mv1432.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 133.
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