Johann Andreas Körber was born in 1719 near Heilbronn, in what today is Baden-Württemberg. He married Maria Dorothea and had two children: (1) Maria Margaretha, baptized on 12 July 1746 in the Hüffenhardt Lutheran Church, and (2) Johann Georg, born & baptized on 16 April 1748 in the Heinsheim Lutheran Church.
Johann Andreas and his family immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein). He has not been found on any of the transport lists, but his wife Maria Dorothea and the children departed from Altona, Duchy of Holstein, on 26 April 1762 under the leadership of Jakob Baumann. They arrived in the city of Flensburg on 1 May 1762 and Johann Andreas arrived the following day.
Maria Dorothea Gertrud Körber died 6 July 1763 in Hoist at the age of 53 years, 7 weeks, and 3 days. On 27 December 1763, Johann Andreas remarried in the church at Ladelund to Katharina Barbara Marleth, widow of Jakob Holzwarth, and daughter of Stephan & Maria Barbara Marleth. She had been born on 6 April 1715 in Kleingartach, southwest of Heilbronn.
Johann Andreas & Katharina Barbara and their combined families lived in Denmark until 22 March 1765, when they immigrated to Russia.
During the journey to the Volga German colonies, the son Johann Georg Körber married Anna Louise, who had been born in 1748.
The extended family arrived in the colony of Reinwald on 14 July 1766. Johann Andreas is recorded on 1767 census in Household No. 3, and his son Johann Georg in Household No. 35.
At some point before 1798 Johann Andreas Körber died. His son Johann Georg is recorded on Reinwald 1798 census in Household No. Rw33.
- Eichhorn, Alexander; Eichhorn Jacob & Mary. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen: Steinmeier, 2012): 288, 481-482, & 680.
- Eichhorn, Mary. Personal notes about Andreas Körber, received by Corina Hirt on 4 March 2013.
- 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): Rw33.
- Parish register of Heinsheim (LDS Film No. 1189292).
- Parish register of Hüffenhardt (LDS Film No. 1189311).
- Parish register of Ladelund.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 30 & 39.
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