The parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Camberg records that Peter Minor from Wirges [Würges] married on 17 November 1750 to Antonetta Hebel from Lachn[?].
The parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Camberg records the baptisms of the following children born to Peter Minor & Antonetta Hebel: (1) Zacharius, born 28 November 1751; (2) Katharina, born 6 December 1753; (3) Elisabetha Katharina, born 10 June 1756; (4) Maria Katharina, born 2 April 1759; (5) Peter, born 12 September 1761; and (6) Anna Maria, born 19 January 1763.
Peter Minor, a farmer, his wife Agneth, and children (Zacharius, age 16; Katharina, age 14; Elisabeth, age 12; Anna Maria, age 6; Peter, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a ship named Der Ringende Jacob (The Wrestling Jacob) under the command of Skipper Johann Heitmann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dehler on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
In 1788, Zacharius Minor and his family moved from Brabander to Dehler.
Brothers Peter Minor, Johann Adam Minor, and Paulus Minor, sons of Zacharias Minor, are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl09.
Brothers Peter Minor, Johann Adam Minor, and Paulus Minor, sons of Zacharias Minor, are recorded on the 1811 census of Dehler in Household No. 53 along with a note that they had relocated to the colony of Preuss in 1801.
The 1834 census of Preuss records Paul Minor, son of Zacharius Minor from Dehler, in Household No. 77.
Peter Minor, son of Peter Minor, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dehler in Household No. Dl41.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Minor came from the German region of Trier. The 1767 census records that Peter Minor came from the German village of Wirges [Würges] in the region of Kurmainz.
- 1811 Dehler Census (Household No. 53).
- 1834 Preuss Census (Household No. 77).
- 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): 523.
- 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): Dl09, Dl41, Mv0348.
- Parish register of Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Bad Camberg.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 275.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4090 (p. 266).
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