Brendel (Keller & Dehler)

Two Brendel families are recorded on the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies. They both came from the German village of Reifenberg in the Bassenheim region, but their exact relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.

(1) Johannes Kaspar Brendel was born 13 December 1691 in Oberreifenberg. He married on 4 April 1712 to Anna Maria Dieter [?].

Johannes Kaspar Brendel (junior), son of Johannes Kaspar Brendel & Anna Maria Dieter, was born 14 December 1718 and baptized 15 December 1718 in Oberreifenberg. He married Apollonia [surname not recorded]. The birth of the following daughter is recorded in the parish register of St. Georg Catholic Church in Oberreifenberger: Maria Anna, baptized 15 December 1750.

Apollonia Brendel died 1 September 1755, and Johannes Kaspar Brendel (junior) remarried on 21 June 1757 to Maria Salome Herber [?], daughter of Johannes & Anna Maria Herber of Glashütten.

The births of the following children born to Johannes Kaspar Brendel and Maria Salome Herber are recorded in the parish register of Oberreifenberger: (1) Anna Margaretha, born 5 April 1758; (2) Johannes Philipp, born 5 November 1759; and (3) Johannes, 09 November 1762.

Kaspar Brendel, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Maria, and children (Katharina, age 18; Marianna, age 18; Philipp, age 8; Johann, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 7.

When Keller was destroyed in 1774, this Brendel family relocated to Neu-Kolonie along with other surviving families.

In 1790, Johann Brendel moved from Neu-Kolonie to Brabander.

Johannes Brendel is recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn51.

The 1767 census records that Kaspar Brendel came from the German village of Reifenberg in the Bassenheim region.

(2) The parish register of St. Georg Catholic Church in Oberreifenberg records the baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Anton & Maria Katharina Brendel: (1) Johannes Jakob, born 18 September 1743; (2) Johannes Ferdinand, born 26 July 1745, died 13 May 1746; (3) Maria Elisabetha, born 21 August 1747; (4) Anna Margaretha, born 11 February 1750, died 20 April 1751; (5) Johannes Martin, 28 April 1752; (6) Franz, born 30 January 1754; (7) Anna Maria, born 13 February 1756; (8) Anna Elisabetha, born 12 April 1758, died 23 October 1761; (9) Maria Margaretha, 29 October 1760; (10) Anna Elisabetha, born 24 June 1762; (11) Anna Katharina, born 14 October 1764, died 10 November 1764; and (12) Katharina, born 14 October 1765. 

Anton Brendel, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Martin, age 16; Margaretha, age 5¼; Maria, age 4; Elisabeth, age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a barque named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper Johann Gottfried Selander. Anton's son Jakob, a blacksmith, and his wife Katharina were on the same ship.

Jacob Brendel, a blacksmith (Schmied), his wife Maria Katharina, and brother Martin (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dehler in Household No. 17. They had arrived in Dehler on 1 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 17. [The rest of this family has not been located on the 1767 census.]

In 1788, Jakob Brendel and his family moved from Dehler to Brabander.

In 1797, Zacharias Brendel moved from Brabander to Preuss.

Martin's widow, Anna Maria, is recorded on the 1798 census living in Brabander (Bn51), remarried to the above noted Johannes.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Brendel came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Jakob Brendel came from the German village of Reifenberg in the Bassenheim region.