Eisenhut(h) (Norka)

Johannes Eisenhut of Kirchbracht was the father of at least five sons:

(1) Hans Heinrich Eisenhuth was born 12 July 1703. He married on 3 May 1725 to Susanna Kaÿser, daughter of Heinrich Kaÿser.

This couple had at least six children: (1) Johannes, born 10 April 1726; (2) Johann Heinrich, born 7 January 1729; (3) Conradt, born 20 January 1731; (4) Anna Magdalena, born 20 March 1733, died in April 1733; (5) Anna Margaretha, born 19 June 1734; and (6) Anna Maria, born 24 December 1738, died 3 April 1741.

The mother Susanna died on 20 June 1742. The father Hans Heinrich died on 24 January 1762.

(2) Johannes Eisenhut was born on 22 November 1705 in Kirchbracht. He married on 19 August 1728 to Anna Margaretha Steurnagel, daughter of Herman Steurnagel. Anna Magaretha had been born 10 April 1705 in Mauswinkel.

This couple had at least ten children: (1) Johann Heinrich, born 13 October 1729, died 19 May 1735; (2) Johann Adam, born 3 October 1731, died 20 July 1732; (3) Dorothea Elisabeth, born about 1736, died 11 June 1744; (4) Susanna, born 19 April 1739; (5) Anna Maria, born 18 August 1742, died 9 December 1742; (6) Anna Margaretha, born 13 April 1744; (7) Johann Heinrich, born 28 October 1747; (8) Johann Heinrich, born 15 July 1748, died 7 April 1757; (9) Anna Maria, born 28 August 1749, died 18 February 1837; and (10) Johannes, born 12 September 1753.

Daughter Susanna (born 1739) married on 7 March 1761 in Mauswinkel to Johann Herman Eberhardt. They immigrated to Russia [see Eberhardt family].

The mother Anna Margaretha died 8 November 1765.

(3) Johann Christian Eisenhut was born in 1706 in Kirchbracht. In 1739, he married Margaretha Preis. Johann Christian died 19 February 1740.

Widow Margaretha remarried 21 February 1741 to Melchior Kempel from Mauswinkel. They immigrated to Russia [see Kempel family].

(4) Johann Jost Eisenhut was baptized on 17 October 1711. He married on 3 December 1738 to Anna Catharina Foder, daughter of Michael Foder, from Mauswinkel.

This couple had at least 8 children: (1) Johann Heinrich, born 31 July 1739, died 13 Oct 1739; (2) Anna Catharina, born 14 November 1740; (3) Johann Heinrich, born 9 August 1742; (4) Johannes, born 17 April 1745; (5) Johann Christian, born 24 September 1747; (6) Johann Conrad, born 19 August 1750; (7) Anna Margaretha, born 19 September 1753; and (8) Anna Catharina, born 23 September 1755, died 2 May 1756.

Johann Jost's wife, Anna Catharina, died on 4 May 1759.

Widower Johann [Jost] Eisenhut, farmer, and his children (Konrad, age 19, & Anna, age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Kronverk under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 112.

Notes accompanying the entry for Household No. 10 in the supplement to the 1775 census of Norka record that Christian Eisenhut's father had moved to Dobrinka where he died.

Daughter Anna Maria Eisenhut (age 22), sister of Christian, is recorded in Household No. 11 in the supplement to the 1775 census of Norka.

Son Christian (born 1747), a farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.