Aitrich*
Eckhard Daudrich [sic], a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Anna, age 14; Johann, age 12; Maria, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Eckhard Daudrich, his wife Anna Maria, and chidren (Anna Elisabetha, age 15; Johann Caspar, age 12; Anna Maria, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Eckhart Aitrich [sic], a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Johann, age 13; Maria, age 10) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 122 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Näb in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Eckhart Aitrich came from the German village of Oberrohn in the region of Riedesel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 374.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4653.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2776-2780.
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