Conrad Eckard [sic], a stocking maker (Strumpfmacher) from the area of Darmstadt, married on 17 July 1766 in Pastor Möllraht's house in Lübeck to Catharina Walter from Solms-Laubach. The marriage is recorded in the parish register of St. Jacob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Konrad Eckhardt, a farmer, and his wife Anna [sic] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 103 along with his wife Katharina.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Eckhardt came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Nidda in the Darmstadt region.
- 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): 479.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ks084.
- 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): #263.
- Parish register of St. Jakob's Lutheran Church (Lübeck).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 443.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3745.
Brent Mai