Johann [Friedrich] Uhrich and his wife Anna [Barbara] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Concordia under the command of Skipper Jakob Bauert.
Johann Friedrich Uhrich and his wife Anna Barbara are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwab in Household No. 33 along with widow Anna Katharina Will (age 55). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Eurich and Will families. They had settled in Schwab on 12 September 1767.
Anna Barbara Uhrich, widow of Friedrich Uhrich, their children (Johann Heinrich, age 28; Adam, age 23; David, age 13; Maria Margaretha, age 17) are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb36 along with a note that son Adam is working in the neighboring colony of Galka.
(1) Heinrich Uhrich and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schwab in Household No. 41.
The death of Heinrich Uhrich in 1850 is recorded on the 1850 census of Schwab in Household No. 66.
Wilhelm, Johann Peter, & Johann Adam Uhrich, sons of Heinrich Uhrich, and their families are recorded on the 1857 census of Schwab in Households No. 66 & 67 & 76 along with a note that they relocated to the daughter colony of Erlenbach in 1852.
(2) Johann Adam Uhrich and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schwab in Household No. 55.
The death of Johann Adam Uhrich in 1852 is recorded on the 1857 census of Schwab in Household No. 91.
(3) Johann David Uhrlich and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schwab in Household No. 76.
The death of Johann David Uhrlich in 1836 is recorded on the 1850 census of Schwab in Household No. 115.
There is another Uhrich family in Schwab by 1798. Their relationship, if any, to the above recorded Uhrich family requires further research.
Johannes Uhrich and his family [including sons Johann Konrad, age 28; Johannes, age 15] are recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb20.
Johannes Uhrich, son of Johann Konrad Uhrich, is recorded on the 1834 census of Schwab in Household No. 68.
Johannes Uhrich, son of Johannes Uhrich, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schwab in Household No. 18.
The death of Johannes Uhrich in 1845 is recorded on the 1850 census of Schwab in Household No. 26.
Johann Gottfried Uhrich from Schwab and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Friedenberg.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Eurich was a farmer from the German region of Gelnhausen. The 1767 census records that he was a weaver (Weber) from the German village of Raibach.
- 1834 Schwab Census (Households No. 18, 41, 55, 65, 68, 76).
- 1850 Schwab Census (Households No. 26, 66, 91, 102, 105, 115).
- 1857 Friedenberg Census.
- 1857 Schwab Census (Households No. 66, 67, 91, 102, 115).
- 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): Sb20, Sb36.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 134.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2659.
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