Johann Heinrich Braun and Elisabetha Catharina Seitz, daughter of Johannes Seitz, married in Heckenbergheim on 8 January 1751. The births and baptisms of two of their children have been located in the parish records of Heckenbergheim: (1) Anna Catharina, born 23 April 1751; and (2) Johannes, born 13 May 1761.
Heinrich Braun, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Anna, age 16¼; Margaretha, age 13; Johann, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Guilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 25 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 80.
The 1767 census records tha t Johann Heinrich Braun came from the German village of Deckerbergheim in the Hanau region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 822.
- 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): Wt027.
- Parish register of Heckenbergheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 313.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6581.
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