Johann Friedrich Mohr married Maria Magdalena Hoerner, daughter of Georg Adam & Anna Catharina Hoerner. She had been baptized on 29 Jan 1727 in the Evangelical Church of Seckenheim, today a district in Mannheim southeast of the city center. They had two known children: (1) Johann Friedrich, born on 4 March 1757 and baptized in the Evangelical Church of Grünwettersbach on 6 March 1757; and (2) Salome, born in 1759.
Johann Friedrich Mohr and his family emigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), departing from Altona, Duchy of Holstein, on 29 June 1761, under the leadership of Johann Thomas Gabler. They arrived in the city of Schleswig, Duchy of Schleswig, on 4 July 1761. They swore allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 24 July 1761.
In December 1761, they are recorded on the farmstead of "Wiesenhof" in the Danish colony of Friederichsholm with Johann Friedrich, his wife Magdalena (age 35), and children (Johann Friedrich, age 5; Salome, age 2).
The parish register of Eggebek-Jörl [Denmark] records on 4 August 1762 the baptism of Susanna Mohr, daughter of Johann Friedrich & Maria Magdalena Mohr.
They are last recorded among the Danish colonies on 6 June 1763.
They joined the migration to Russia and settled in the Volga German colony of Schilling where they are recorded on the 1775 census in Household No. 16.
Widow Maria Magdalena and her family are recorded there on the 1798 Census in Household No. Sg015. Daughter Salome Junker Luft née Mohr is recorded in Household No. Sg030.
The Eichhorns record that Johann Friedrich Mohr came from the German region of Baden-Durlach.
- 1775 Schilling Census (No. 16)
- Eichhorn, Alexander. The immigration of German colonists to Denmark and their subsequent emigration to Russia in the years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Steinmeier, 2012): 269, 527 (B-1119) & 685.
- 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): Sg015.
- Parish register of Eggebek-Jörl [Denmark].
- Parish register of Grünwettersbach (LDS Film No. 1189466).
- Parish register of Seckenheim (LDS Film No. 1272728).
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