Spelling Variations
Knorr (Schwab)*
Кноръ (Schwab)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Heinrich Knorr, a farmer, his wife Julianna, daughters (Barbara, age 13; Elisabeth, age 7), and [step-]daughters [Eva Katharina [Krug], age 14; Anna Elisabeth [Krug], age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwab in Household No. 28. They had arrived there on 12 September 1767. [See Krug Family.]
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Knorr came from the German village of Teschow.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Knorr family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 133.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai