Metzler (Dobrinka)

Johann Andreas Metzler, son of Johann Heinrich Metzler & Anna Magdalena Nenner, was born on 27 April 1719 in Langstadt, north of Gross-Umstadt in Hessen. He married first to Elisabetha Catharina Dörr, daughter of Andreas Dörr & Maria Margaretha Daniel, on 17 February 1750 in Groß-Bieberau, southeast of Darmstadt. She had been born there on 6 February 1721.

They had a number of children in Groß-Bieberau: (1) Anna Barbara, born 24 November 1751, died 30 April 1754; (2) Georg Philipp, born 16 June 1754; (3) Georg Nicolaus, born 5 February 1757; (4) Johann Philipp, born 20 November 1759, died 16 December 1765; and (5) Georg Heinrich, born in 1762, died 16 December 1765. Elisabetha Catharina died on 15 September 1763, and Andreas remarried in Groß-Bieberau on 4 September 1764 to Anna Barbara Keil, daughter of Johann Keil. They had one son (Johannes, born 13 March 1766) before leaving for Russia.

Andreas Metzler, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Philipp, age 12; Johann, age 10; Johann, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Wiebe Heinrichson.

Georg Philipp Metzler is recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db45.

Nikolaus Metzler from Shcherbakovka is recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db33.