Ewald (Walter)
Johann Peter Ewald, a farmer, his unnamed wife, and 2 unnamed children (1 son & 1 daughter) immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Fridericia on 15 May 1760. They are last recorded among the Danish colonies on 1 January 1766.
They joined the migration to Russia and settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 25 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 77.
The Eichhorns record that Johann Peter Ewald came from "Kellerei Waldeck, Oberamt Heidelberg" or from the German region of Hanau. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Freigericht in the Hanau region.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-357.
- 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): Wt102.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 312.
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