Adam Eberhardt, a weaver (Weber), his wife Anna Elisabeth Rohr, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 11; Anna Barbara, age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 19. They had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 2 December 1766.
Johann Adam Eberhardt (age 49), a stocking weaver (Strumpfweber), his wife Anna Elisabeth née Jäkel (widow Rohr) (age 37), son Johann Philipp Kaspar (age 8), and step-children [from a previous wife?] (Johann Heinrich Schäfer, age 18; Anna Barbara Schäfer, age 15) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 18 along with a note that Anna Barbara Schäfer married in 1777 to Bernhardt Morsbucher.
Adam Eberhardt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka020.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Adam Eberhardt came from the German region of Nassau-Usingen. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Anna Elisabeth née Jäkel came from the German region of Hessen-Darmstadt.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 18).
- 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): Ka020.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 280.
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