Johann (Georg) Heinrich Derr and his family migrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 12 June 1762.
The parish register of Sörup records on 20 January 1763 the baptism of Anna Margaretha Dehor [sic], daughter of Johann Heinrich Dehor [sic] & Regina Kurtz.
On 1 October 1764, Johann Georg Heinrich Derr (age 25), his wife Regina (age 30), and children (Johannes, age 3; Margaretha, age ½) are recorded in the Danish colony of Neuberend.
They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 22 April 1765.
They joined the migration to Russia.
Heinrich Derr and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Rosenheim on 15 March 1766.
Heinrich Derr, a farmer, his wife Regina, and children (Johannes, age 8; Margaretha, age 5; Tobias, age 1½; Eva Barbara, age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 45.
The Eichhorns record that Johann Georg Heinrich Derr came from the German region of Württemberg. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Derr came from the German village of Mühlbach in the Kurfürstentum Pfalz.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-279.
- 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): Rm21.
- Parish register of Sörup [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 73.
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