Christian Braun, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Christian Braun and his wife Margaretha are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Christian Braun, a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 37) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The 1767 census records that Christian Braun came from the German village of Debing in the region of Württemberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Braun family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 356.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4627.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5507-5508.
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