Johann Sebastian Eich married on 1 February 1746 in Nieder-Modau to Sophia Philippina Ramge, daughter of Konrad Ramge.
The births of the following children born to Johann Sebastian Eich & Sophia Philippina Ramge are recorded in the parish register of Georgenhausen: (1) Johann Peter, born 24 October 1748 in Wembach, died 3 November 1748; (2) Anna Margaretha Barbara, born 19 October 1749 in Georgenhausen; (3) Elisabeth Margaretha, born 9 February 1753 in Georgenhausen; (4) Catharina Elisabetha, born in 1761 in Steinau; and (5) Johann Dieterich, born 7 May 1764 in Asbach.
Sebastian Eich, a farmer, and his children (Joseph Dietrich [age not recorded], Maria Barbara, age 16; Elisabeth Margaretha, age 13; Elisabeth, age 8; Katharina Elisabeth, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the colony of Dobrinka on 20 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 73.
Sebastian Eich and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db69.
There are no know surviving male lines of this Eich family among the Volga German colonies.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 258.
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Georgenhausen [Online].
- 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): Db69.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 333.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1855.
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