Konrad Breit, a farmer, his wife Franziska, and children (Anton, age 17½; Simon, age 13; Maria Eva, age 11¾; Ulrich, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Drei Gebrüder (Three Brothers) under the command of Skipper Ludwig Münzenberg.
Siblings Anton [Breit] (age 20), Simon [Breit] (age 16), and Maria [Breit] (age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka in Household No. 38 along with Johannes Apfel (age 24) and his wife Maria (age 39). The Breit siblings are recorded on the 1767 census of Semenovka as the children of Johannes & Maria Apfel, but this is unlikely.
The widow and children of Anton Breit are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se34.
Maria Eva Gette née Breit and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Semenovka in Household No. Se46.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Breit came from the German region of Bamberg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 723.
- 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): Se34, Se46.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 187.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5773.
Brent Mai