Christoph Uhrich was born 15 April 1735 in Hofheim, Lampertheim, Worms, Germany. He is the grandson of Ludwig Urich and Anna Maria Bruch, also of Hofheim. Original name appears to have been spelled Urig.
Christoph Uhrich, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Svyatoi Pavel (St. Paul) under the command of the Lieutenant Fyedor Sornev.
Orphan Johannes Uhrich (age 6), son of the deceased Friedrich Uhrich, is recorded on the 1767 census of Dietel in Household No. 3 along with the Philipp Spreuer family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Uhrich and Spreuer families.
In 1788, Johannes Eurich moved from Dietel to Frank.
Johannes Uhrich from Dietel is recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk026.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Uhrich came from the German region of Worms. The 1767 census records that Johannes Uhrich came from the German village of Worms in the Kurpfalz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 358.
- 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): Fk026, Mv0390.
- Parish register of Hofheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 280.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2705.
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