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There are 3 Meier families that settled in Wittmann. This family is one of them.

Georg Meier, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Thomas, age 11; Anna, age 7; Bartholomaus, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Georg Meier, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Maria, and children (Thomas, age 12; Maria, age 9; Bartholomaus, age 6) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 84.

Johann Heinrich Müller, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census along with a note that they settled in the colony of Wittmann in 1768.

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Müller came from the German village of Kerzenheim.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Müller family among the Volga German colonies.

Georg Rudolph, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.

Georg Rudolph, a single farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 61. He is recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm03.

The 1767 census records that Georg Rudolph came from the German region of Bamberg.

Andreas Trasnets and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Schaffhausen in Household No. Sh50 along with a note that he had changed his religion and moved to city of Volsk where he has resided for almost 20 years.

His daughter Katharina is noted there as well having married clerk Fyodor Derevyagin, formerly of the Volsk lower judicial court.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

In 1788, Mattias Wohn and his family moved from Schaffhausen to Urbach.

Johann Wicht, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 16½; Johann [again], age 15; Johann Sebastian, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Schröder.

Jacob Wicht, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 16¼; Johann Georg, age 15; Johann Sebastian, age 3) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johann Sebastian died en route.

Kashul [sic] Albertin arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 September 1766.

Caspar Albertin is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

In 1774 (during the Pugachev rebellion), Kaspar Albertin ran away and never came back.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

There are 3 Ebel children recorded on the 1767 census of Schönchen. They may be siblings, but further research is needed to confirm this relationship.

(1) Orphan Joseph Ebel (age 15) is recorded there in Household No. 9 along with the Georg Heinrich Schneider family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Ebel and Schneider families.

Kornelius Deisling, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Aliorda, age 22; Johannes, age 11; Wilhelm, age 8; Johannes [Heinrich], age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair. Gertrude Amer, a single woman from The Netherlands, is also recorded on this same ship. [See Amer Family.]