Stöhr (Volmer)*
Spelling Variations:
Stöhr (Volmer)*
Штиръ (Volmer)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Michael Stöhr, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.
The 1767 census records that Michael Stöhr came from the German village of Kemel in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Stöhr family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 291.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai