The parish register of Eckartshausen records the marriage of Johannes Aschenbrenner from Eckartshausen & Friederica Elisabetha Schön from Himbach on 9 June 1763.
The parish register of Eckartshausen records the birth of a daughter to Johannes Aschenbrenner & Friederica Elisabetha Schön: Catharina Elisabetha Aschenbrenner, born 19 December 1764 in Himbach.
Johannes Aschenbrenner and his wife Friedrika Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 15 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55.
Johannes Aschenbrenner, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 6; Johannes, age 4; Magdalena, age ½) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 137.
Three Aschenbrenner families from Norka relocated to Brunnental in 1859.
Johannes is recorded on the Oranienbaum passenger list as a farmer, and on the 1767 census as a craftsman.
Widow Elisabeth Aschenbrenner née Schön is recorded on the 1798 census of Norka in Household No. Nr144.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that he came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 137).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 489.
- 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): Nr107, Nr144.
- Parish register of Eckartshausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 243.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3829.
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