Johann Philipp Dörr, son of Johannes Dörr, was born in Grünberg in 1731. On 15 November 1760 he married Anna Catharina Walter, daughter of Christian Walter, a tanner who was also from Grünberg.
Philipp Dörr, a tanner, his wife Anna, and daughter (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Heyer.
They arrived in the colony of Katharinenstadt on 5 March 1767, and are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 88.
Philipp Dörr, his wife Anna Katharina née Walter, and daughters (Anna Dorothea, age 14; Katharina, age ½) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 56.
Widow Dörr is still living in Katharinenstadt in 1798 where she is recorded in Household No. Ka023.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Dörr came from the German village of Grünberg. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Philipp Dörr came from the German village of Grünberg in the region of Hessen and that his wife came from the region of Darmstadt.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 56).
- Derr, Arthur C. The Descendants of Joachim (Joseph) Derr : 1620-1670 Erbstadt, Hesse, Germany.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 63.
- 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): Ka023.
- Parish register of Grünberg (LDS International Film #1260687).
- Pleve, Igor. Derr Family Chart.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 295.
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