Johann Christian Eckardt, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Christina are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 159. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.
Christian Eckardt (age 26), his wife Henrietta [née?] Ludwig (age 41), and children (Johanna Sophia, age 6; Friedrich, age ½) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 26.
Christian Eckardt and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka045.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Johann Christian Eckardt came from the German village of Halberstadt in the Brandenburg region.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 26).
- 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): Ka045.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 309.
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