Johann Kaspar Eirich, son of Johann Georg Eirich & Anna Katharina Leinberger, was born 13 September 1746 in Stockhausen.
Johann Kaspar Eurich, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Reinwald on 24 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 47 along with his new wife Maria.
Kaspar Eurich and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Reinwald in Households No. Rw01, Rw17, and Rw42.
The death of Kaspar Eurich in 1805 recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 17.
Johann Martin Eurich, son of Kaspar Eurich, is recorded on the 1811 census of Reinwald in Household No. 17 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Rosenheim.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Kaspar Eurich came from the German region of Riedesel while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Mudersbach.
[There are a several publications that have mis-translated this surname as Heinrich.]
- 1811 Reinwald Census (Household No. 17).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 264.
- 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): Rw01, Rw17, Rw42.
- Parish register of Stockhausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 42.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1899.
Brent Mai
Galena from the Forum of Wolgadeutsche.net