Uhri*

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.]