Mahr

Johann Jacob Mahr, son of Johann Peter Mahr from Wildsachsen, married on 25 April 1747 to Eleonora Philippina Dorothea Winden, daughter of Georg Winden from Massenheim.

The baptisms of 10 children born in Waldsachsen to Johann Jacob Mahr & Eleonora Philippina Dorothea Winden are recorded in the parish register of Wildsachsen: (1) & (2) Johann Philipp and Anna Margaretha, born and baptized on 10 April 1748; (3) Catharina Margaretha, born 9 April 1750, baptized 11 April 1750, died 5 March 1752; (4) Christina Elisabetha, born 15 November 1751, baptized 18 November 1751; (5) Catharina Margaretha, born and baptized 14 April 1753; (6) Maria Elisabetha, born 20 September 1754, baptized 22 September 1754, died 10 March 1756; (7) Catharina Margaretha, born 20 February 1757, baptized 22 February 1757; (8) Christina Margaretha, born 2 February 1759, baptized 4 February 1759; (9) Johann Peter, born 13 February 1761, baptized 16 February 1761; and (10) Johann Jacob, born 11 May 1764, baptized 13 May 1764. 

Eleonora Philippina Dorothea Mahr née Winden died 21 October 1765 and was buried 23 October 1765. Johann Jacob remarried on 10 June 1766 to Maria Appolonia Fraund, daughter of Gerhard Fraund from Niederseelbach.

Johann Jacob, Maria Appolonia, and their eight children are recorded on a list of colonists recruited during 1766, but who had not yet been transported to Russia in 1767. The Mahr family is among the few families on the list who can be identified in later documents as settling in the Volga German colonies.

(1) The widow and children of Jakob Mahr [believed to be the father Johann Jakob Mahr] are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt115.

(2) Margaretha Mahr, wife of Konrad Dietz, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt038.

(3) Christina Mahr, wife of Justus Luther, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Huck in Household No. Hk76.

(4) Anna Katharina [sic] Mahr, wife of Nikolaus Koch, and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kolb in Household No. Ko10.

(5) Peter Mahr and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt001.

(6) Jakob Mahr, son of Jakob Mahr [Sr.], and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt073.