Johannes Metzler, a son of Heinrich Metzler & Kunigunda Bötigler, was born on 14 July 1746, and baptized on 17 July 1746 in the Langstadt Evangelical Church, north of Gross-Umstadt in Hessen. Johannes married to Catharina Elisabetha (surname unknown).
Johann Metzler, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the ship Die Jungfer Friederika under the command of Skipper Hans Christian Korsholm.
Johannes Metzler and his wife settled in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there in the 1767 census living in Household No. 9. On the 1798 census, their descendants are still in Straub recorded in Households No. Sr35, Sr39, and Sr42.
Philipp Metzler, son-in-law of Philipp Aul, is recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 35 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Neu-Straub [year not recorded].
Philipp Metzler from Neu-Straub and his son Georg Heinrich (age 2) are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 42. He and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Straub in Household No. 15.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Metzler came from the German region of Hanau.
- 1811 Straub Census (Households No. 35, 42).
- 1834 Straub Census (Household No. 15).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 151.
- 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): Sr35, Sr39, Sr42.
- Parish records of Langstadt (LDS Film No. 1340337).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Nordost-Institut, 2008): 231.
- Pleve, Igor. List of Colonists to Russia in 1766 "Reports by Ivan Kulberg" (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #934.
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