Brehne*
Spelling Variations:
Brehne*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Brehne, a plasterer (Stuckateur), and his wife Ursula settled in the Volga German colony of Seelmann on 5 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 52 along with his stepchildren [surname Strack] (Margaretha, age 15; Simon, age 13; Christoph, age 10).
The 1767 census records that Johann Brehne came from the German village of Neustadt in the Kurpfalz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 159.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai