Fourth Generation  

4. Mathias Dorr ¹ was born on 7 Jul 1782 in Varsberg (57, Moselle), France and died on 30 Aug 1814 in Morhange (57 Moselle), France at age 32.

Mathias Dorr hid his origins in the town of Morhange (Moselle). The Municipal records list his occupation as cloth maker and apparently he was a wealthy man. It is not clear at this time how many children Mathias had. According to the municipal records he had three children, Victor, Rosine, and Louis, all by his first wife Marie-Marguerite. After she died he married a younger woman with children of her own. A French genealogy web site shows him with seven children by his first wife. When he died there was a dispute over his inheritance which continued until 1876. The settlement was delayed due to Napoleon's defeat. It ended up that most of the inheritance was lost to an unscrupulous lawyer.

The following email gave us the first solid information about the Dorr family in France:

Hello

My name is Patrick NICOLAS, and I'm living in Nancy (Lorraine) and I'm fond of genealogy since many years. I found your site with google, because I'm interested by the Dorr family, since I've got some Dorr in my own tree.

I went to the Municipal archives and I didn't found the birth of Louis Dorr on the year 1816.

But I found a Louis Dorr, born on 9-12-1816, in MORHANGE, and he has got a brother Victor; born on 3-2-1808 in MORHANGE also and a sister Rosine, born on 3-9-1806, in MORHANGE too.

His brother Victor was married with Elisabeth SCHOUMERT, and had a daughter, named Victorine, born on 7-17-1838.

The father of Louis, Victor and Rosine and others, was named Mathias (instead of François) and was married with Marie-Marguerite CLOSSET on 8-31-1801 in MORHANGE.

Louis's mother died in 1828 and his father got married again with Catherine HUMBERT, on 10-20-1830 in DIEUZE (Moselle).

I noticed that on the passengers'list of the Hanover Ship, the line above the Louis'one is HUMBERT, like his stepmother. Maybe, This HUMBERT was a brother of his stepmother ?

About Victor, he lived after in NANCY and he was à cloth maker. He was rich, apparently.

Victor DORR and his wife, Elisabeth SCHOUMERT, are the ancestors of Ségolène ROYAL. Do you know her? She is an important political leader and was candidate to the recent presidential elections in France against Nicolas SARKOZY. Furthermore, she was living in the same village as me (CHAMAGNE). I wa looking for her genealogy when I found your site. Click on the link below to discover your famous cousin.

http://www.geneastar.org/liste.php3?nom=royal&x=8&y=8

I noticed that the families BENAL & HERIC are often from the same village: GUERMANGE (Moselle) but I din't found anything about Françoise BENAL.

I hope that the french informations will interest and help you.

Yours sincerely,

Patrick NICOLAS

Mathias married Marie-Marguerite Closset on 31 Aug 1801 in Morhange, France. Marie-Marguerite was born on 26 Sep 1773 in Morhange (57 Moselle), France and died on 20 Jun 1828 in Morhange (57 Moselle), France at age 54.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 5 M    i. Louis Adolphe Dorr was born on 12 Sep 1816 in Morhange, France, died on 6 Jun 1883 in Panola Co., MS at age 66, and was buried in Davis Chapel Cemetery, Panola Co., MS.

+ 6 M    ii. Victor Dorr was born on 2 Mar 1808 in Morhange, France.

   7 F    iii. Rosine Dorr was born on 9 Mar 1806 in Morhange, France.

Rosine married Joseph Hector Klein in 1830. Joseph was born in 1807.

   8 F    iv. Cecile Dorr was born on 4 Jan 1804 in Morhange (57 Moselle), France.

Cecile married Henry Berger.

   9 F    v. Marie Anne Dorr was born in 1810 and died in 1810.

   10 M    vi. Jean Michile Dorr was born in 1811.

   11 M    vii. Mathias Dorr was born on 24 Feb 1814 in Morhange (57 Moselle), France and died on 8 Apr 1866 in Morhange (57 Moselle), France at age 52.

Mathias married Marie Victoire Thedore.

Mathias next married Catherine HUMBERT.