Johann Philipp Braun, son of Christian Ludwig & Anna Sybilla Braun, was born 2 November 1717 in Habitzheim. He married 11 July 1752 in Habitzheim to Anna Catharina Waldner, daughter of Heinrich Peter & Anna Catharina Waldner.
Anna Catharina Braun née Waldner died in Spachbrücken on 3 March 1761.
Johann Philipp Braun then married on 5 January 1762 in Spachbrücken to Philippina Sophia Eleonore Ahl, daughter of Johann Philipp Ahl & Anna Sophia Beck. She had been born 3 May 1732 in Georgenhausen.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Philipp Braun & Philippina Sophia Ahl are recorded in the parish register of Spachbrücken: (1) Elisabeth Dorothea, born 8 April 1763; and (2) Johann Georg Braun, born 4 May 1765, died 22 December 1765.
Philipp Brauer [sic], a farmer, his wife Sophia Philippina, and daughter Elisabeth Dorothea (age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 August 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Citadel under the command of Midshipman Gregory Bukharin.
Johann Philip Braun, his wife Sophia Philippina, and children (Elisabeth, age 4; Ludwig Philip, born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Johann Philip died en route.
Widow Sophia Philippina remarried to Friedrich Körner and settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe on 5 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census [with surname translated as Krämer] in Household No. 53. The surname of the stepdaughter Elisabeth Dorothea (age 5) is not recorded, but is confirmed to be Braun when she later marries Johannes Nilmeier in Stahl am Tarlyk.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Braun came from the German region of Löwenstein.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Braun family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): St35.
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Georgenhausen [Online].
- Kirschnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Spachbrücken [Online].
- Parish register of Spachbrücken.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 49.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5267 (p.334).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2152-2155.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Philipp Brauer [sic] and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.
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