Heinrich Eckhardt, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and sons (Johann, age 25½; Johann Heinrich, age 23; Johann [again], age 20½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pinque named Каргополь (Kargopol: a Russian City) under the command of Captain Lieutenant Moses Davydov.
[There is a Johann Heinrich Eckart [sic] who married Sophia Elisabeth Backe on 22 September 1765 in Roßlau. He is believed to be one of the sons of Heinrich Eckhardt who settled in Krasnoyar, because there are other marriages in Roßlau of couples that settled in Krasnoyar who also came from Laubach. In this scenario, Sophia Elisabeth Backe must have died before arriving in Krasnoyar.]
They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 4 (father), No. 5 (son Johann Heinrich), and No. 37 (son Johannes).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Eckhardt was a wheelwright while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Eckhardt came from the German region of Laubach. The 1767 census records that the Eckhardt family came from the German village of Laubach near Solms.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 531.
- 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): Ks007, Ks038, Ks039.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #874.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 414, 424.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4116 (p. 270).
Brent Mai