Dörr (Schuck)
Johann Peter Dörr (age 30), a farmer, and his wife Maria Agnesa Retzbach are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 23 September 1765.
Peter Dörr, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Schuck on 18 July 1766. Peter, his [new] wife Elisabeth, and daughter Anna Maria (age ½) are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
In 1790, widow Katharina Dörr and her children moved from Schuck to Kutter.
Daughter Anna Maria Dörr is believed to be recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km036. Additional daughters (Elisabeth, Katharina, & Barbara) may be recorded on the 1798 census of Hildmann in Household No. Hd31.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johann Peter Dörr came from the German village of Sembach. The 1767 census records that Peter Dörr came from the Mannheim area in the Kurpfalz region.
- 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): Hd31, Km036, Mv2633.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 116.
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