Spelling Variations
Brockmann (Schäfer)*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Peter Brockmann, a merchant (Kaufmann), and his wife Anna Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Schäfer on 1 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
The 1767 census records that Peter Brockmann came from the German region of Homburg [?].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Brockmann family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 98.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai