Samuel Einike, his wife Susanna, and children (Christoph, age 15; Andreas, age 8; Christina, age 7; Dorothea, age 4; Christina, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild. [It appears that his wife and children died before arrival in the Volga German colonies.]
Samuel Einike, a farmer, and his [new] wife Margaretha are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 38.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Samuel Einike came from the German village of Falkenstein.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Einike family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 169.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7007.
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