Meier (Mariental-2)
Spelling Variations:
Meier (Mariental-2)
Мейеръ (Mariental-2)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Leonard Meier, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Mariental on 14 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 72.
The 1767 census records that Leonhard Meier came from the German district of Hohenburg.
Sources:
- 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): Mt53, Mt70.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 113.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai