The marriage of Anna Maria Eber & Wilhelm Heinrich Luhm is recorded in the parish register of Coswig on 20 July 1766. It reads as follows:
"den 20. Juli 1766 Ist Wilhelm Heinrich Luhm, Knopfmacher und Kaiserlicher Russischer Kolonist zu Katharinalehn, verstorbenen Meisters Wilhelm Heinrich Luhms, Bürgers und Sattlers in Stettin, nachgelassener ehelicher Sohn und Jungfrau Anna Maria Ebern, Andreas Ebers, Ackermanns in Rauen bei Welckershein eheliche Tochter in hiesiger Kirche getraut worden."
[Translation: On 20 July 1766 Wilhelm Heinrich Luhm, button maker and Imperial Russian colonist from Katharinalehn & legitimate son of the deceased master Wilhelm Heinrich Luhms, citizen and saddler from Stettin, and the virgin Anna Maria Eber, daughter of Andreas Eber, a farmer from Rauen near Welckershein, were married in the local church.]
Wilhelm Luhm, a button maker (Knopfmacher), his wife [new?] Margaretha, and daughters (Philippina, age 11; Dorothea, age 8-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 123. They had settled there on 17 August 1767.
The marriage register in Coswig records that Anna Maria Eber's father was from Rauen near Welckershein.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Eber family among the Volga German colonies.
- Parish register of Coswig.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 302.
Karl Becker
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Entry from the parish register of Coswig recording the marriage of Wilhelm Heinrich Luhm & Anna Maria Eber on 20 July 1766.
Source: Karl Becker.
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