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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.

June 29, 2024 - Wichita, Kansas

Submitted by bmai on

To celebrate the 260th Anniversary of the founding of Dobrinka (the first Volga German colony founded on 29 June 1764), Dr. Brent Mai, Dean of Libraries at the Wichita State University and director of the Volga German Institute, will be providing a Volga German genealogy workshop from 1:00-7:00 p.m. in the Ablah Library on the campus of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday, 29 June 2024.