Casparus Behr, son of Johannes & Margaretha Behr, was baptized 19 April 1704 in Seigendorf. He married in Seigendorf on 27 April 1728 to Kunigunda Spies, daughter of Johann & Elisabeth Spies from Wernsdorf.
The parish register of St. Bartholomäus Catholic Church in Buttenheim records the baptism of the following son born to Caspar Behr & Kunigunda Spies in Seigendorf: Michael, baptized 17 February 1734.
Michael Behr, son of Caspar Behr from Seigendorf, married 26 February 1759 in Seigendorf to Margaretha Latterbacher. [Margaretha Latterbacher is the daughter of Konrad Latterbacher (2 November 1681 - 20 September 1755) from Willersdorf and Gertruda Schwinger whom he had married on 30 January 1730.]
[Father Caspar Behr died 6 November 1770 in Seigendorf at the age of 69.]
Michael Bähr, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Margaretha, and children (Johann, age 8; Kaspar, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 September 1766 aboard a pink named Лев (Lev) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
Michael Bähr, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Margaretha, and sons (Johannes, age 9; Kaspar, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leitsinger in Household No. 60. They had arrived in Leitsinger on 19 August 1767.
They are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk07.
The death of Michael Bähr in 1799 is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 7.
The 1767 census records that Michael Bähr came from the German village of Seigendorf in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bähr family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 7).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 876.
- 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): Nk07.
- Parish register of St. Bartholomäus Catholic Church in Buttenheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 73.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7145.
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