Spelling Variations
Imherr
Имгеръ
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johannes Imherr, a farmer, his wife Margaretha, and [step-]children (Christina [Beckmann], age 15; Elisabeth [Beckmann], age 9; Heinrich [Beckmann], age 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Köhler in Household No. 62. They had settled there on 21 August 1767. [See Beckmann Family.]
The 1767 census records that Johannes Imherr came from the German village of Brückenau.
Sources
- 1834 Köhler Census (Household No. 166).
- 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): Kl30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 375.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai