Adam Mennike, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and daughter Maria (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 44. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.
Margaretha Mennike, presumed daughter of Adam Mennike, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka091.
The 1767 census records that Adam Mennike came from the German village of Weißbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Mennike 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): Ka091.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 188.
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