Anton Brandecker & Catharina Elisabeth Meyer were married on 27 May 1766 in Roßlau.
Anton Brandecker, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Adler under the Skipper Paul Adam Drath.
Anton Brandecker is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Anton Brandecker, a weaver (Tuchweber), and his new wife Barbara are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 46. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Anton Brandecker came from Hungary. The 1767 census records that Anton Brandecker came from the German village of Oberndorf near Oberentrecht.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #990.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 225.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5966.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6684.
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