Behrens (Enders)
Dietrich Behrens, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Maria Margaretha, and daughter Katharina (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Enders in Household No. 4. They had settled there on 27 March 1765.
Before 1850, August Behrens and his family relocated to the daughter colony of Wiesenfeld.
Christian Behrens from Enders and his family are recorded on the 1862 census of Gnadendorf.
The 1767 census published by Igor Plehve records that Dietrich Berns [sic] came from the German village of Brehna and that his wife had come from the Zweibrücken area. However, the original documents reveal that it is the Austrian village of Brenna from which Dietrich Behrens came and that his [2nd wife] Maria Margaretha Bolger came from the German village of Zweibrün [perhaps Webenheim] near Zweibrücken. [See Bolger Family.]
- 1862 Gnadendorf Census.
- 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): En04.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 382.
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