Samuel Einike, his wife Susanna, and children (Christoph, age 15; Andreas, age 8; Christina, age 7; Dorothea, age 4; Christina, age 1¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 26 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Die Jäger (The Hunter) under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will. [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.
- 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): 862.
- 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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