Mattias Brehm, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Barbara, age 20; Anna Maria, age 18; Katharina, age 13¾; Hans, age 11; Philipp, age 6¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Katharina [widow of Mattias Brehm] (age 48) and her [new] husband Johannes Schaaf (age 49) are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 59 along with her children (Katharina Brehm, age 15; Johann Brehm, age 12; Philipp Brehm, age 8). They had arrived in Keller on 12 May 1767. [See Schaaf Family.]
Following the destruction of Keller, the Brehm family relocated to the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
Johannes Brehm, son of Mattias Brehm, is recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk01.
Johannes Brehm is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 1.
Johannes Brehm is recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 39.
The death of Johannes Brehm in 1837 is recorded on the 1850 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 73.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Mattias Brehm came from the German region of Mainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Brehm family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. Nk01).
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 39).
- 1850 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 73).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 132.
- 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): Nk01.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 354.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #782.
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