Eberhard(t) (Huck)

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Eberhard (Huck)
Eberhardt (Huck)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Johannes Eberhard and Anna Catharina Bringmann were married on 14 July 1751 in Wächtersbach. Their son Johannes was baptized on 23 Jan 1754 and their daughter Johanna Sophia was baptized on 31 Aug 1755, both in Wächtersbach.

The Eberhard family immigrated to Russia, arriving from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766.

The family settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767.  They are recorded there on the 1767 Census in Household No. 42.

By 1798, descendants of this family were living in Shcherbakovka.

Sources: 

- 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): Sv42.
- Parish records of Wächtersbach.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3155.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Maggie Hein

Pre-Volga Origin

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