[Johann] Leonhard Eitel, a butcher, his wife Maria Katharina, and their son Johann Balthasar (age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 June 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Fortuna under the command of Skipper Peter Stahl.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Beideck where Johannes [sic] Eitel and his family are recorded on the 1775 census in Household No. 12.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Leonhard Eitel came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Census of Beideck (No. 12).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- 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): Bd12.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2254.
Brent Mai