Johann Brendel, a farmer, his wife Ursula, daughter Margaretha (age 3), and [step-]children (Margaretha [Schreck], age 16; Simon [Schreck], age 12; Christoph [Schreck], age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Johan Brandel [sic], Ursula, daughter Margretha (age 3), and children (Margretha [Schreck], age 16; Simon [Schreck], age 12; Christoph [Schreck], age 10) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Brehne [sic], 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 (Margaretha Schreck, age 15; Simon Schreck, age 13; Christoph Schreck, age 10). They had arrived in Seelmann on 5 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Brendel came from the German region of Pfalz. 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 Brendel family among the Volga German colonies.
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