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.
Caspar Behr and Kunigunda Spies had the following son, born in Seigendorf: Michael, born 17 February 1734.
Michael Behr, son of Caspar Behr from Seigendorf, married 26 February 1759 in Seigendorf to Margaretha Letterbach, daughter of Konrad Letterbach from Willensdorf [?].
[Father Caspar Behr died 6 November 1770 in Seigendorf at the age of 69.]
Michael Bähr, a tailor (Schneider), his wife Margartha, and children (Johann, age 8; Kaspar, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on a ship under the command of Skipper 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).
- 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 Seigendorf.
- 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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