Johann Adam Eberhardt (age 49), a stocking weaver (Strumpfweber), his wife Anna Elisabeth née Jäkel (widow Rohr) (age 37), son Johann Philipp Kaspar (age 8), and step-children [from a previous wife?] (Johann Heinrich Schäfer, age 18; Anna Barbara Schäfer, age 15) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 18 along with a note that Anna Barbara Schäfer married in 1777 to Bernhardt Morsbucher.
In 1788, Heinrich Schäfer moved from Katharinenstadt to Paulskaya.
Heinrich Schäfer from Katharinenstadt is recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl37.
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Johann Heinrich Schäfer came from the village of Erfurth in Thüringen and that Anna Barbara Schäfer came from the German village of Stockstadt am Rhein.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 18).
- 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): Pl37, Mv1192.
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