There are two Eberhard families that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johannes Eberhard married on 14 July 1751 in Wächtersbach to Anna Catharina Bringmann. The baptisms of two children born to Johannes Eberhard & Anna Catharina Bringmann are recorded in the parish register of Wächtersbach: (1) Johannes, baptized on 23 January 1754; and (2) Johanna Sophia, baptized on 31 August 1755.
Johannes Eberhard, a tailor, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann, age 16; Sophia, age 12) arrived in Oranienbaum.
The family settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 42.
By 1798, descendants of this family were living in Shcherbakovka.
(2) Isaak Eberhardt, a farmer, his wife Karolina, and mother Anna arrived in Oranienbaum.
They have not been located among the Volga German colonies.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that both of these Eberhard families came from the German region of Isenburg.
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- 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): Sv42.
- Parish register of Wächtersbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 150.
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Maggie Hein
Brent Mai