Ehmer*

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Spelling Variations:

Ehmer*

Эмеръ*

Settled in the Following Colonies:

Unknown Colony

Pre-Volga Origin:

Orb (Bad-Orb), Kr. Main-Kinzig, Hessen

Discussion & Documentation:

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.

It is not known in which colony he settled.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Ehmer came from the German village of [Bad-]Orb.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Ehmer family among the Volga German colonies.

Sources:

- Kertel, Karola. Ortsfamilienbuch Bad Orb. [Online]
- 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.

Contributor(s) to this page:

Brent Mai

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Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies