Euler

Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Langen-Bergheim, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
Description

Johann Georg Euler, the son of Johannes and Juliana Euler of Eckartshausen, was born on 16 Feb 1733. Anna Dorothea Knickel, the daughter of Adam and Anna Knickel of Eckartshausen was born in August 1734.  Johann Georg and Anna Dorothea married on 22 November 1753.  They had five children, all born in Bergheim:  Anna Catharina, born 30 October 1754; Elisabeth, born 29 July 1757; Anna, born 10 July 1760; Anna Maria, born 6 November 1762; and Catharina, born 28 March 1765. Johann Georg, Anna Dorothea, and their daughters Elisabeth and Anna arrived in Russia on 9 August 1766.  Anna Dorothea died before the family arrived in Huck.  Georg, his new wife Anna Maria, and his two daughters, are recorded on the Huck First Settlers List in Family #81.       

Sources

- Decker, Klaus-Peter. Die Auswanderung von 1766/67 aus der Grafschaft Ysenburg-Büdingen nach Russland, p. 112
- Parish records of Eckartshausen (including Langen-Bergheim, Wiedermus, Ronneburg, and Himbach) on Archion.de
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010) p. 260
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): p. 160
 

Researchers
Maggie Hein (© Margreatha Hein, 2020)
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