Johannes Eberhard married on 14 July 1751 in Wächtersbach to Anna Catharina Bringmann. The baptisms of two children born to Johannes Eberhard & Anna Catharina Bringmann are recorded in the parish register of Wächtersbach: (1) Johannes, baptized on 23 January 1754; and (2) Johanna Sophia, baptized on 31 August 1755.
The Eberhard family immigrated to Russia, arriving from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
The family settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 42.
By 1798, descendants of this family were living in Shcherbakovka.
- 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): Sv42.
- Parish register of Wächtersbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3155.
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