Nicolaus Eckel married on 13 February 1755 in Vonhausen to Anna Maria Dörr, daughter of Johann Caspar & Anna Catharina Dörr. She had been born 26 February 1718 in Vonhausen.
Nikolaus Eckel, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and [step-]son Balthasar [Dörr] (age 19) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Mattias under the command of Skipper David Wollert.
Nikolaus Eckel, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and [step-]son Balthasar [Dörr] (age 20) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 46. They had arrived in Moor on 18 June 1767.
Anna Margaretha, widow of the deceased Balthasar Dörr, and their children are recorded on the 1798 census of Moor in Household No. Mo11.
- 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): Mo07, Mo11.
- Parish register of Vonhausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 167.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1918.
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