Johann Conrad Eichler, son of Johannes Eichler, was born 20 July 1721 in Bischhausen. He married in Waldkappel on 12 August 1756 to Maria Elisabetha Apel, daughter of Johann Heinrich & Anna Elisabetha Apel. She had been born in Waldkappel on 14 May 1734.
Konrad Eichler, a farmer, his wife Maria, and sister-in-law Sophia [Apel] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronstadt under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs.
Konrad Eichler, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Maria Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 66. They had settled in Moor on 1 July 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Eichler came from the German district of Hessen while the 1767 census records that he came from the German district of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Eichler family among the Volga German families.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 380.
- Parish register of Bischhausen.
- Parish register of Waldkappel.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 172.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2899.
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