Lihr
There are two Lihr families traveling together to Russia. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research. They arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.
(1) Johann Lihr, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Kaspar, age 20; Dietrich, age 17; Elisabeth, age 12) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Johann Lihr, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Kaspar, age 20; Dietrich, age 17; Elisabeth, age 11) are recorded on 1767 census of Ernestinendorf in Household No. 6. They had settled in Ernestinendorf on 3 August 1767.
Johannes Lihr, his wife Catharina, and his children (Caspar [age not recorded]; Diettrich, age 17½; Elis., age 12) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
In 1785, Kaspar Lehr and his family moved from Ernestinendorf to Katharinenstadt.
In 1788, widower Johannes Lehr and his family moved from Ernestinendorf to Fischer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Lihr came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Berod in the Kurpfalz region.
(2) Johann Conrad Löhr, son of Johann Balthasar Löhr & Anna Dorothea Scharmann, was born 11 June 1725 in Nieder-Ohmen and baptized there on 13 June 1725.
Conrad Leer [sic] from Nieder-Ohm [Nieder-Ohmen] & Anna Eliesabetha Becht from Gunterskirchen [Gonterskirchen] were married on 26 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Konrad Lihr [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Elisabeth (10-weeks) arrived in Oranienbaum.
Conrad Lihr, his wife Dorothea, and daughter Anna Maria (age ¾) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Konrad Lehr, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 4-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Krasnoyar in Household No. 85. They had settled there on 20 July 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Konrad Lehr [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt.
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- 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): Er06, Fs11, Ka069, Mv0570, Mv0574.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #596.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 396.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 438.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4250, #4252.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5487-5489, 5494-5497.
Brent Mai