Franz Joseph Brabander, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and children (Marianna, age 16¼; Theresia, age 11; Johann, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 13 August 1767 and are recorded thre on the 1767 census in Household No. 1. The 1767 census also notes that Franz Joseph Brabander is serving as the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony. It is after him that the colony received its name.
In 1790, Johann Georg Brabander moved from Brabander to Dehler.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Joseph Brabander was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a dentist (Zahnarzt).
Both the Oranienbaum passenger record and the 1767 census record that Franz Joseph Brabander came from Andreanopol.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 450.
- 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): Dl19, Mv0357.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 215.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3505.
Brent Mai