Chorherr*

Heinrich Chorher from Mittelweilersbach married on 8 January 1742 to Kunigunda Seubert.

The baptisms of the following children born to Heinrich Chorher & Kunigunda Seubert are recorded: (1) Barbara, born in June 1742; (2) Johannes, baptized 23 November 1744; (3) Anna, baptized 31 October 1748; (4) Johannes, baptized 21 February 1751, died 3 March 1751; (5) Johannes, baptized 18 January 1752; (6) Johannes, baptized 17 March 1753; (7) Kunigunda, baptized 22 February 1756, died 22 February 1756; (8) Eva, baptized 5 March 1756 [?]; (9 & 10) twins Johannes & Anna Margaretha, baptized 9 January 1759; and (11) Johannes Georg, baptized 17 June 1762, died 6 October 1763.

(1) Widow Cunigunda Chorherr and her children (Anna, age 19; Eva, age 12; Margaretha, age 12; Hans, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.

The widow of Heinrich Hoherher [sic] and her children (Anna, age 21; Margaretha, age 12; Eva, age 9; Johannes, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that she died en route.

The surviving son of this family (Johannes/Hans, age 10) settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 43, living with his sister Barbara and brother-in-law Johannes Göringer. [See Göringer Family.]

Johannes Chorherr from Hölzel, his wife, and stepchildren are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb48 along with a note that he had been kidnapped by the Kirghiz [in 1774] and returned in 1794.

The death of Johannes Chorherr (age 52) of Laub is recorded in August 1808 [exact date is illegible] in the parish register of Preuss.

(2) Johannes Chorherr, a farmer, and his wife Agness arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.

Johannes Korger [sic] and his wife Agnes are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johannes died en route.

Their orphaned daughter, Anna Margaretha, is recorded on the 1767 census of the Volga German colony of Rohleder in Household No. 50 living with Johannes Pommer and his wife, Maria Theresia.

The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Pommer and the Korger families although they did arrive in Oranienbaum on the same ship.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that these Chorherr families came from the German region of Bamberg.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.