Otto / Ott (Brabander)*

Documents record this family as both Otto and Ott through the years.

Joseph Otte [sic] & Maria Munar were married on 10 June 1766 in Roßlau.

Joseph Otto, his wife Maria, son Mattias (age 8), and sister-in-law Katharina [surname not recorded] (age 30) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the Skipper Paul Adam Drath.

Joseph Otto, his wife Maria, and son Matthias (age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Maria and Matthias died en route.

Joseph Ott [sic], his new wife Margaretha, and stepdaughter Margaretha Berer (age 8) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 92. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.

Peter Ott [sic], presumed to be a son of Joseph Ott, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Brabander in Household No. Bn61.

Peter Otto and his son Michael are recorded on the 1811 census of Brabander in Household No. 62.

The death of Peter Ott [sic] in 1821 is recorded on the 1834 census of Brabander in Household No. 74 along with son Michael and his family.

Michael Ott [sic] and his family (all daughters) are recorded on the 1850 census of Brabander in Household No. 89.

Michael Ott [sic] and his wife are recorded on the 1857 census of Brabander in Household No. 107.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Otto was a miller while the 1767 census records that he was a farmer.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Joseph Otto came from the German region of Schwaben (Swabia). The 1767 census records that Joseph Ott [sic] came from the German village of Weidach near Ulm in the Schwaben (Swabia) region.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Ott/Otto family among the Volga German colonies.