Eckel (Schuck)
Some researchers have translated this surname as Jäkel.
Heinrich Eckel (age 42), a farmer, his wife Christian Suppes (age 42), and sons (Johann Wilhelm, age 15; Sebastian, age 12) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 21 September 1765.
Heinrich Eckel, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and sons (Johann Wilhelm, age 17; Sebastian, age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 4. They had settled in Schuck on 18 June 1766.
In 1797, widow Barbara Eckel and her children moved from Schuck to Degott.
The widow of Wilhelm Eckel and his children are recorded on the 1798 census of Degott in Household No. Dg13 along with a note that Johann Wilhelm Eckel, his son, is working in Schuck.
The death of Sebastian Eckel in 1831 is recorded on the 1834 census of Schuck in Household No. 8.
The 1798 census of Degott records in Household No. 17 that Peter Eckel, son of Lorenz Eckel, is in the colony of Schuck.
Heinrich Eckel and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Degott in Household No. 5).
The 1765 Worms list records that Heinrich Eckel came from the German village of Bobstadt. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Eckel came from the German area of Dieburg in the Mainz region.
- 1834 Degott Census (Household No. 5).
- 1834 Schuck Census (Household No. 8).
- 1897 Degott Census (Household No. 17).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 126 (#332-335).
- 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): Dg13, Su17, Mv2653.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 112
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