Beier / Beyer (Schönchen-2)*
Spelling Variations:
Бейеръ (Schönchen-2)*
Beier (Schönchen-2)*
Beyer (Schönchen-2)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Discussion & Documentation:
Widow Anna Maria Beier is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 64 along with a note that she settled in the colony of Schönchen in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Anna Maria Beier came from the German regino of Jena [in Thüringen?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Beier family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 274.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai