Johann Heinrich Döring, son of Johannes Döring (1682-1734) & Anna Cunigunda Siebert (ca.1690-1760), was born 13 February 1714 in Ibra. He married on 25 November 1753 in Ibra to Martha Elisabeth Fischer, daughter of Lorentz Fischer (1680-1737) & Anna Martha Becker (1693-1765). She had been born in Braunau on 23 January 1733 and baptized there on 25 January 1733.
The births of three children born to Johann Heinrich Döring & Martha Elisabeth Fischer have been located: (1) Johann Michael, born 8 November 1755 in Singlis, baptized 15 November 1755 in Singlis; (2) Johann Eberhardt, born 2 August 1758 in Singlis, baptized 13 August 1758 in Singlis; and (3) Anna Margaretha, born 2 September 1763 in Hebel.
Heinrich Döring, a farmer, his wife Maria, children (Johann, age 12; Bernhard [sic], age 9; Anna, age 4), and servant Johann [Hassenflug] (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Johann Heinrich Döring, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and children (Johann Michael, age 12; Eberhardt [sic], age 10; Anna Margaretha, age 6) settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 150 along with orphan Johannes Hassenflug (age 18), son of the deceased Johannes Hassenflug. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Döring and Hassenflug families. [See Hassenflug Family.]
At some point, Johann Heinrich's son, Nikolaus, moved to Moor because in 1789, Nikolaus Döring is recorded moving from Moor to Norka.
The 1834 census of Norka (Household No. 36) records that Adam Döring relocated to the colony of Reinwald in 1824.
Johannes Döring from the 1857 census of Norka (Household No. 48) is recorded on the 1857 census of Brunnental.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Döring came from the German district of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Döring came from the German district of Isenburg.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 141).
- 1857 Brunnental Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 461, 482.
- 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): Nr006, Nr007, Nr025, Mv1774.
- Parish register of Braunau.
- Parish register of Hebel.
- Parish register of Ibra.
- Parish register of Singlis.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 269.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3772.
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