Johann Martin Eitenmüller, son of Johann Jacob Eitenmüller & Margaretha Elisabetha Friderich, was born 29 May 1720 in Fränkisch-Crumbach.
Johann Martin Eidenmüller married on 21 February 1749 in Fränkisch-Crumbach to Benigna Dorothea Christina Zahn, daughter of Caspar Dillmann Zahn from Idstein. She had been born 6 January 1721.
Among their children whose births are recorded in the parish register of Fränkisch-Crumbach are: (1) [unnamed son], born 23 March 1752, died 23 March 1752; (2) Johann Peter, born 10 May 1753 [in Sandbach], died 9 July 1753; (3) Sophia Friederica, born 28 April 1754, died 26 June 1754; (4) Anna Elisabetha, born 29 April 1755, died 8 March 1756; (5) Anna Barbara, born 31 January 1757; (6) Johann Ludwig, born 28 October 1761; and (7) Elisabetha Margaretha, born 6 January 1764, died 28 April 1765.
Martin Eitenmüller (age 42), a farmer, his wife Maria Christina Zahn, and children (Anna Barbara, age 9; Johannes, age 6; Ludwig, age 4) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 9 September 1765.
Martin Eitenmüller, a farmer, his wife Maria Christina, and children (Anna Barbara, age 14; Johannes, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 1 along with a note that Martin is serving as the Vorsteher (mayor) of the colony. They had settled there on 20 July 1766.
Johann[es] Eitemüller (age 39) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br51. Johannes Eitemüller (age 22) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br30.
Johann Philipp Eitemüller, son of the above referenced Johannes Eitemüller (age 39), and his family moved from Bauer to Merkel in 1832 and are recorded on the 1834 census of Merkel in Household No. 78.
Both the 1765 Worms list and the 1767 census record that Martin Eitenmüller came from the German village of Fränkisch-Crumbach in the Darmstadt region.
- 1834 Merkel Census (Household No. 78).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 123 (#256-259).
- 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): Br30, Br51.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1277.
- Ortsfamilienbuch Fränkisch-Crumbach [Online].
- Parish records of Fränkisch-Crumbach (LDS International Film Nos. 1190573 & 1599925).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 115.
Brent Mai
Entry from the parish register of Fränkisch-Crumbach listing the families who left for Russia in 1766 including Joh[ann] Mart[in] Eitemüller. They are recorded in the bottom group which were supposedly settling near St. Petersburg, but his family ended up in the Volga German colony of Bauer.
Source: Dominik Krämer.