Meier (Wittmann-2)
Мейеръ (Wittmann-2)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Wittmann
Pre-Volga Origin
Münzenberg, Kr. Wetterau, Hessen
Discussion & Documentation
Sebastian Meier, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, sons (
Johannes, age 3; Johann Georg, age 1¾ ), and stepson Johann Just [Wentz] (age 12) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
Sebastian Meyer [sic], his wife Eisabeth, sons (
Johannes, age 4; George, age ½ ), and stepson Johann Jost [Wentz] (age 12) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Oranienbaum in 1767.
Sebastian Meier, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth Wensen [sic], sons (Johannes, age 4; Johann Georg, age 2½ ), and stepson Johann Jost Wensen [sic] are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 7.
In 1770, widow Hedwiga Lauterbach married Sebastian Maier and moved from Boisroux to Bettinger.
Johannes Meier and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of
Wittmann in Household No.
Wm50.The widow and children of Georg Meier are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm51.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Sebastian Meier came from the German region of Minburg. The 1767 census records that he came from the
German village of Manzenburg [probably Münzenberg].Sources
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- 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): Wm50, Wm51, Mv0265.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 324.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #137.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4611-4615.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
https://volgagermaninstitute.org/surnames/meier-wittmann-2 
