Johann Chor, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Johann Chor, his wife Anna Maria, and son Johann (born in route) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov along with a note that newborn Johann also died in route.
Johannes Chor, a farmer, his wife Maria, and daughter Anna (age 1-week) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 89. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Chor came from the German village of Aurach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this familiy among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 368.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4755.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5683-5685.
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