Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Leutershausen, Hirschberg an der Bergstraße, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Germany
Description
Johannes Erder was born in about 1714. He married on 2 March 1745 in Leutershausen to Maria Barbara Weber. She had been born in about 1724 in Heiligkreuz near Odenwald (northeast of Schriesheim).
They immigrated first to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein), and then in 1763 to Russia. They arrived in the colony of Anton on 7 September 1764 along with their son Johann Nikolaus (age 15) and daughter Anna Margaretha (age 3). They are listed on the 1767 census in Anton in Household No. 9.
Sources
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga .
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 54.
Researchers
Gerhard Lang