Andreas Brothun, a farmer, and his wife Rosina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Andreas Brodhun [sic], his wife Rosina, and daughter Maria (age ¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Maria died in route.
Widow Elisabeth Brott [sic] settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 3 August 1767. She is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 93.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Brothun came from the German region of Schwarzburg. The 1767 census records that Elisabeth Brott [sic] came from the German village of Silkerode.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Brothun family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 190.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 330.
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