Nicolaus Eckel married on 13 February 1755 in Vonhausen to Anna Maria Dörr, daughter of Johann Caspar & Anna Catharina Dörr. She had been born 26 February 1718 in Vonhausen.
Nikolaus Eckel, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and [step-]son Balthasar [Dörr] (age 19) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Nikolaus Eckel, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and [step-]son Balthasar [Dörr] (age 20) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 46. They had arrived in Moor on 18 June 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Nikolaus Eckel came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Eckel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 266.
- Parish register of Vonhausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 167.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1918.
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