Eckhardt (Louis)
Spelling Variations:
Eckhardt (Louis)
Экгардъ (Louis)
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Peter Eckhard, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Louis on 14 June 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.
The 1767 census records that Peter Eckhard came from the German village of Meisenheim in the region of Zweibrücken.
Sources:
- 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): Ls18.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 80.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai