Johannes Scheiring (age 48), a miller (Müller), and his wife Eva Weingarten (age 30) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 21 September 1765.
Johannes Scheuring, a miller (Müller), and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johannes Scheiring came from the German village of Frankenheim. The 1767 census records that Johannes Scheuring came from the German village of Frankenheim in the Würzburg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 120 (#176-177).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 291.
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