Johann[es] Uhrich, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Regina, age 17¼; Johann, age 14; Katharina, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev.
His wife died, and Johannes remarried to the widow Maria Pfeifer. The combined Uhrich and Pfeifer families settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6. Daughter Regina Uhrich is recorded in Household No. 7 married to Johann Heinrich Leicht.
In 1797, Georg Uhrich moved from Krasnoyar to Näb.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Uhrich came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Johannes Uhrich was from the German village of Mannheim in the Kurpfalz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 608.
- 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): Ks006, Nb05, Mv1411.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 415.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4868.
Brent Mai