Eichner

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Egner
Associated Colonies
Place of origin
Feudenheim, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Description

Georg Phillip Egner, son of Georg Caspar and Anna Margaretha Egner, was baptized 4 January 1729 in Feudenheim. Maria Catharina Krampf, daughter of Sebastian and Catharina Elisabetha Krampf, was baptized 21 September 1727 in Feudenheim. Phillip and Catharina had one child, Catharina Elisabeth, baptized 25 December 1755 in Feudenheim.  Phillip Egner's wife Catharina died on 3 January 1756. Phillip and Anna Margaretha Krampf had three children, all baptized in Feudenheim: Anna Elisabeth, baptized 10 February 1757; Anna Eva, baptized 6 February 1761; and Christina, baptized 7 April 1762. Anna Margaretha Krampf was the sister of Maria Catharina Krampf, and was baptized 31 July 1729 in Feudenheim. 
  
The Egner family emigrated to Denmark in 1762, arriving in the same transport group as a number of other families from the Feudenheim area. While in the Danish colonies Phillip and Anna Margaretha had another child: Johann Philipp, baptized 26 June 1763 in Oeversee, Denmark.

In 1765 they left the Danish colonies and migrated to Russia. They are reported on the Balzer First Settler's List in household #37. Their son Johann Philipp relocated to Moor and is reported there on the 1798 Census in household #60.

Sources

- Parish records of Feudenheim on Archion.de
- Parish records of Oeversee (Kirchenkreis Schleswig-Flensburg) on Archion.de
- Kreutzer, Rudolf. Ortsfamilienbuch Feudenheim 1650-1900 (Mannheim, Germany: Waldkirch Verlag, 2008)
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga
- Eichhorn, Alexander; Eichhorn Jacob & Mary. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Steinmeier, 2012): pp. 295, 388, & 661.
- Danish parish record extractions by Wayne Bonner and Mike Meisinger
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): pp. 81-82. 
- 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): Volume 1, p. 734  

Researchers
Wayne H. Bonner
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