The baptisms of the following children born in Ehringshausen to Johann Adam Isheim & Eleonora Georg are recorded in the parish register of Berghausen: (1) Jordan Johann Ehrenfried, baptized in July 1755; (2) Anna Elisabetha, baptized 20 November 1757; (3) Maria Susanna, baptized 15 February 1760; and (4) Johann Friedrich, baptized 24 July 1763.
Adolf [sic] Isheim from Ehringshausen, son of the school clerk (Schuldieners) of Berghausen, appears in documents of the Solms-Braunfels Archives requesting permission to depart for Russia in 1766.
Johann Adam Isheim, a farmer, his wife Eleonora, and children (Georg, age 12; Anna, age 10¼; Susanna, age 8; Friedrich, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Kukkus on 26 June 1767. Widower Johann Adam Isheim, a hosier (Strumpfwirker), whose wife had died on 18 September 1767 is recorded on the 1767 census of Kukkus in Household No. 7 along with children Jordan (age 14), Elisabeth (age 11), and Susanna (age 9).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Adam Isheim came from the German region of Braunfels. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Berghausen near Braunfels.
- 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): 456.
- Kukkus Website (www.kukkus.com) - Origins
- 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): Kk08.
- Parish register of Berghausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 464.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3556.
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