Möhring

An article by Wilhelm Funk records the following going to Russia:

Joh. Gg. Möhring, born in the Imperial City of Ulm, son of the late Joh. Gg. Möhring, a lieutenant of His Highness the Duke of Wüttemberg [sic], & Christina Stöszel, born in Stadling, daughter of Andreass Stössel, a day laborer (Taglöhner) in Stadling, both Lutheran, were married on 27 March 1766 in the sacristy of the Lutheran Church in Wöhrd.

According to his memoirs, Johann Georg Möhring, son of Johann Georg & Katharina Magdalena Möhring, was born on 4 August 1743 in the German village of Altenstadt, not far from the town of Chaorkomcham in Pastor Tilger's house. He was baptized that same day by Pastor Tilger. His father was a native of Dettenhausen bei Tübingen. His mother remarried in 1744 to Johann Daniel Deckert, and the young Johann Georg went to live with his grandfather in Lorch.

He attended school at the University of Tübingen. He served in the military, and was then recruited by Johann Brugmann, a Dutch merchant from Amsterdam, as a Russian colonist. He married  Christiana Stössel from Stadling, his first wife, on 27 March 1766 in Wöhrd. The newlyweds, his mother-in-law Anna Stössel (age 70), and sister-in-law Barbara (age 22) departed for Russia on 17 April 1766. Along the way, in Magdeburg, Barbara married druggist Andreas Dalfuss who had been born in the village of Znaim in Moravia. Also traveling with them was a relative Martin Baßinger, a mason from the village of Wörth near Nürnberg, his wife Christina, and their daughters (Anna Maria & Dorothea).

Johann Georg Möhring, a teacher (Schulmeister), his wife Christina, his mother-in-law Anna, his sister-in-law Barbara and her husband Andreas Dalfuss, and the Baßinger family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.

After several weeks, they set out for Novgorod. Many colonists became ill during this part of the journey, and on 9 September 1766, Christina Möhring née Stössel died and was buried behind the monastery of St. Nikolai, about 3 versts from Novgorod. On 3 November 1766, Martin Baßinger died, and Johann Georg Möhring married his widow.

Johann Georg Möhring and Christina (widow Baßinger) Möhring are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that her husband Martin Baßinger had died during the transport.

They arrived in the Volga German colony of Jost on 19 August 1767 and he is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 39 along with his new wife (also named Christina) and her children (Anna Maria, age 8; Dorothea, age 6) [surname Baßinger].

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Möhring came from the German region of Ulm. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Möhring came from the German village of Ulm in the region of Schwaben (Swabia).