Peter Herr, a farmer, his wife Maria, children [Maria, age 11; Johann, age 7; Ernst, age 4], and his sister Margaretha (age 43) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
Surviving children Maria Katharina (age 13) and Johann Peter (age 10) settled in the Volga German colony of Schwab and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
Johannes Herr and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb01.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Herr came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Herr came from the German village of Anburg [?] in the Nassau region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 346.
- 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): Sb01.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 137.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2592.
Brent Mai