Spelling Variations
Braun (Preuss)
Браунъ (Preuss)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Gerhard Braun, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Preuss on 12 May 1767. They are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 50.
The 1767 census records that Gerhard Braun came from the German village of Hüffelsheim in the Kurmainz.
Sources
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Ps52, Ps79.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 420.
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Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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