Heinrich Gorr, a farmer, was born about 1708 in Schönberg.
Heinrich Gorr, a farmer, his [new] wife Julianna Eleonore, and children (Christina Sophia, age 17; Johann August, age 13; Johann Friedrich, age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Reinwald in Household No. 2. An older son Gottlieb Gorr, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Maria Magdalena (age 2) are recorded in Household No. 34. They had arrived in Reinwald on 14 July 1766.
In 1788, August and his family moved from Reinwald to the colony of Schwed.
Gottlieb Gorr and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Household No. Rw30.
August Gorr and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwed in Household No. Sw24.
Friedrich Gorr and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwed in Household No. Sw02.
The 1767 census of Reinwald records that Heinrich Gorr came from the German village of Mölz and that his son Gottlieb came from the German village of Schönberg in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
The 1767 census translation by Dr. Plehve erroneously records these surnames as Georg and Nor.
- 1834 Reinwald Census (Households No. 21, 27, 30, 31, 54, 58).
- 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): Rw30, Sw02, Sw24, Mv2401.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 29, 38.
Jerry Goertzen
Brent Mai