Hanß Jerg Frey, son of Hanß Jerg Frey & Anna Margaretha Kober, married on 1 May 1708 to Maria Barbara Laÿ, daughter of Johann Friedrich Laÿ & Anna Katharina Kramer.
The parish register of Schwaigern records the births of the following children to Hanß Jerg Frey & Maria Barbara Laÿ: (1) Johann Friedrich, born 21 March 1711; (2) Hanß Georg, born 27 February 1713, died 23 September 1714; (3) Gottlieb, born 29 January 1714; (4) Christian Matthes, born 3 September 1718, died 10 May 1720; (5) Eva Dorothea, born 21 September 1720; and (6) Anna Catharina, born 5 November 1723.
Anna Catharina Frey married on 4 February 1749 in Schwaigern to Johann Sigmund Pflaumer, son of Johannes & Anna Margaretha Pflaumer. [See Pflaumer Family.]
They immigrated first to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) and then to Russia where Simon Pflomart [sic] (age 43), a farmer, his wife Anna Katharina (age 42), and children (Gottlieb, age 14; Eva Dorothea, age 9; Elisabeth, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dobrinka in Household No. 9. They had arrived in Dobrinka on 29 June 1764.
Widow Katharina Pflaumer [née Frey] (age 75) is recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db38 along with her son Gottlieb and his family.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Frey family among the Volga German colonies.
- Clausen, Otto. Chronik der Heide- und Moorkolonisation im Herzogtum Schleswig, 1760-1765 (Husum: Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1981): 728.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-1272.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Db38.
- Parish register of Schwaigern (LDS Films No. 1184789 & 2125560).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 315.
Dave Lutz
Brent Mai
Entry from the parish register of Schwaigern recording the marriage of Hanß Jerg Frey & Maria Barbara Laÿ on 1 May 1708.
Source: Dave Lutz.