Johann Döring & Maria Catharina Müller were married on 23 June 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck. This is believed to be the same Johann Döring who settled in the colony of Köhler.
Johann Döring, a farmer, his wife Margaretha Heil, and daughter Katharina (age 1½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 19. They had settled there on 10 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Johann Döring came from the German region of Fulda.
- 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): Kl08.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #110.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 364.
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