Heinrich Eichner, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Anna, age 11; Johann, age 6) 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.
Orphan Johann Eichner is recorded on the 1775 census of Schilling in Household No. 96.
Orphan Anna Eichner is recorded on the 1775 census of Schilling in Household No. 97.
In 1788, Johannes Eichner moved from Schilling to Jost. In 1788, Johannes Eichner moved from Stahl am Tarlyk to Jost.
Johannes Eichner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo04.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Eichner came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 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): 229.
- 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): Jo04, Mv2554, Mv2818.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1630.
Brent Mai