Georg Eigner [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, sons (Georg, age 5; Johann, age 1½), and his mother Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
Georg Michael Eichner and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Beideck in Household No. 70.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Eigner [sic] came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Beideck Census (Household No. 70).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 460.
- 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): Bd38, Bd66.
Brent Mai