Spelling Variations
Eckel (Unknown)*
Экель (Unknown)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Heinrich Eckel, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Maria (age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 58.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Eckel came from the German village of Leisel in the Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Eckel family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 172.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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