Ursula (Unknown) Meier (abt. 1703 - bef. 1798)

Born about 1703 in Germany

Descendants

Died before 1798 before about age 95 in Grimm, Saratov, Russia

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Biography

Ursula (Unknown) Meier was a Volga German.

Ursula (Unknown) Meier has German Roots.

Family # 60 in the 1775 Grimm census.

She and her husband lived with her son by her first husband, Wilhelm Vogel, at the time of the 1775 census.

Note that the surname of her second husband, was Meer/Meier. This was a common misspelling of the surname Major, which is prounced "Meyer." The surname Major was common in Grimm.

1775 Grimm Census ^[1]

Family # 60

Head of the Household Wilhelm Vogel, age 30

Wife Salome Vogel, age 38

Stepfather Johannes Meer [sic], age 72 [probably Meier or Major]

Mother Ursula Meer [sic], age 72 [probably Meier or Major]

She is not listed in the 1798 census and was probably deceased. If she were still alive, she would have been 95 years old.

Sources

1. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Census of the German Colony on the Volga, Lesnoy Karamysh, also known as Grimm; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published date: 1995; family # 60 in the 1775 census, Wilhelm Vogel family.