Peter Uhrich [sic], a farmer, and his wife Catharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Peter Uhrig [sic] and his wife Cunigunda [sic] are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767.
Peter Uhri, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 87. They had arrived there on 3 August 1767.
Peter Uhri and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zug in Household No. Zg07.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Uhrich [sic] came from the German region of Elsass [Alsace]. The 1767 census records that he came from the village of Schwarzbach in the Elsass [Alsace] region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Uhri family among the Volga German colonies.
Parish registers record a variety of spellings of this surname including Uri, Ury, and Uhri. [Some translations have conflated this surname with Luea and Louis, but it is a separate surname.]
- 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): Zg07, Zg08, Zg10.
- Parish register of Zug.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 368.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4751.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5671-5672.
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