Georg Brunner, his unnamed wife, and 2 unnamed children immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in Flensburg on 26 June 1762.
On 22 July 1763, Georg Brunner remarried to widow Johanna Sophia Reimer née Kühl.
The baptism of Sophia Dorothea Brunner, daughter of Jürgen [sic] & Johanna Sophia Brunner, is recorded in the parish register of Jörl [Denmark] on 30 October 1764.
They are last recorded in the Danish colonies on 24 April 1765. They joined the migration to Russia.
Georg Brunner and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Reinwald on 14 July 1766. Georg died and his widow [Jo]Anna Sophia [née Kühl] remarried to an unnamed Mr. Berger. The combined Berger / Brunner / Reimer family is recorded on the 1767 census of Reinwald in Household No. 17 including Dorothea Brunner (age 4). [See Berger & Reimer Families.]
The 1767 census records that the widow [Jo]Anna Sophia Brunner came from the German village of Nähermemmingen in the region of Württemberg. The Eichhorns record that Georg Brunner came from "Menzingen(?), Herrschaft von Freiherr von Menzinger, Ritterlicher Kanton Kraichgau, Schwäbischer Ritterkreis."
There are no known surviving male descendants of this Brunner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-189.
- Parish register of Jörl [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 34.
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