Conrad Eichhorn and his first wife, Elisabeth, had four children baptized in Wächtersbach: (1) Catharina Margaretha, baptized 14 September 1740; (2) Dorothea Amalia, baptized 16 September 1742; (3) Henrietta Louisa, baptized 20 December 1744; and (4) Anna, baptized 4 June 1750.
Elisabeth died, and Conrad re-married on 2 August 1753 to Susanna Hoffman, daughter of Phillip Hoffmann. The baptisms of their six children are recorded in the Wächtersbach parish register: (1) Anna Maria, baptized 19 May 1754; (2) Maria Margaretha, baptized 25 August 1755; (3) Christina Margaretha, baptized 27 November 1757; (4) Johann Isaac, baptized 1 June 1760; (5) Johannes, baptized 21 February 1762; and (6) Catharina, baptized 15 July 1764.
Konrad Eichhorn, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and daughters (Henrietta, age 23; Anna, age 20; Maria, age 13; Christina, age 10¼; Katharina, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Konrad & Susanna Eichhorn and 5 of the daughters daughters settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767 where they are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 27.
Daughter Maria (recorded in 1767 as age 13) is recorded on the 1836-1845 Huck Communion Register in Household No. 101 as being born on 31 August 1755 in the German village of Wächtersbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Eichhorn family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1836-1845 Huck Communion Register (Household No. 101).
- Parish register of Wächtersbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 146.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3138.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the family of Konrad Eichhorn.
Source: Brent Mai.
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