Johannes Ehmer, son of Johannes Caspar Ehmer & Barbara Hofacker, was baptized on 31 May 1746 in St. Martin's Catholic Church in Orb.
Johannes Ehmer, a single mason (Maurer), is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census.
This Johannes Ehmer is believed to be the same Johann Jemmer [sic] who is recorded with his family on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz34.
Subsequent documents in Luzern record this surname as Emmer, Emer, and Eimer.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Ehmer came from the German village of [Bad-]Orb.
- Kertel, Karola. Ortsfamilienbuch Bad Orb. [Online]
- 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): Lz34.
- Parish register of St. Martin's Catholic Church in Bad-Orb.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 379.
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