Widow Katharina Eberhardt and her son Johann (age 14½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the galliot named Elisabeth Catharina under the command of Skipper Heinrich Ludwig Gottknecht.
Son Johann Eberhardt is recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 91 along with his sister Katharina and her husband Wilhelm Zimmer.
Johannes Eberhardt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn08.
The death of Johannes Eberhardt is recorded in Brabander on 24 November 1808. [His age at death places his birth on 29 January 1753.]
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Katharina Eberhardt came from the Alsace region (along the French/German border).
- 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): 398.
- 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): Bn08.
- Parish register of Brabander.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 234.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #3058.
Brent Mai
Alexander Eberhardt