Christoph Elchner [sic], his wife Anna, and daughter Katharina (age 8-days) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
Christoph Elchener [sic], his wife Anna Sabina, and daughter Carolina Johanna (age ¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that his wife and daughter died in route.
Christoph Eichner, a farmer, and his [new] wife Johanna are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 43 along with a note that they settled in the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Christoph Eichner came from the German village of Reichenbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Eichner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 830.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 360.
- Oranienbaum passenger list [not recorded in the Kuhlberg list published by Igor Plehve]: #6660.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4093-4095.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Christoph Eichner and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.