Braun (Shcherbakovka)
Valentin Braun, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck in Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
Valentin Braun, a single farmer, is recorded on the 1767 census of Shcherbakovka in Household No. 51.
The 1767 census of Shcherbakovka records that Valentin Braun is living in Saratov.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Valentin Braun came from the German region of Riedesel.
- 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): Sv48.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 257.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3131.
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