The parish register of Schilling records the birth of Johanna Eleonora Dorothea Döring, daughter of Johann Gottfried Döring & Margaretha Engelhardt, on 21 April 1767 in Kolomna while en route to the colonies.
Johann Gottfried Döring, a potter (Töpfer), arrived in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 23 July 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34 along with his new wife Margaretha and her one-month-old daughter Johanna (surname not recorded).
A note on the 1767 census records that Johann Gottfried Döring moved to the colony of Katharinenstadt in 1768.
Gottfried Döhring (age 35), his wife Margaretha née Engelhardt (widow Selrod) (age 36), and children (Johanna Dorothea, age 8; Johann Jakob, age 1) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 139.
Gottfried Döhring and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinestadt in Household No. Ka093.
In 1852, Friedrich Jakob Döring and his family moved to Rohleder where the surname becomes Döringer.
Friedrich Döringer and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Rohleder in Household No. 130 along with a note that they had arrived in Rohleder from Katharinenstadt in 1852.
The 1767 census records that Johann Gottfried Döring came from the German town of Dresden. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Gottfried Döring came from the German town of Dresden in the region of Sachsen (Saxony) and that his wife came from the town of N
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 139).
- 1857 Katharinenstadt Census (Households No. 253, 479).
- 1857 Rohleder Census (Household No. 130).
- 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): Ka093.
- Parish register of Schilling.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 192.
Brent Mai
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