Antoine Panier, a cobbler (cordonnier) and tanner (tanneur), age 27, is recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
Anton Panier, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Maria Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 30 along with their 1-year-old daughter Anna Maria.
The 1764 list of colonists records that Antoine Panier came from the French region of Comte. The 1767 census records that Anton Panier came from the French village of Poligné.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 43.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 448.
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