Hans Heinrich Brill married in Neuenschmidten on 5 November 1711 to Anna Elisabeth Laÿs, daughter of Conrad Laÿs from Spielberg.
The baptisms of these children born to Hans Heinrich Brill & Anna Elisabeth Laÿs are recorded in the parish register of Neuenschmidten: (1) Johann Heinrich, baptized in January 1715; (2) Johannes, baptized 11 August 1726; and (3) Johann Heinrich [again], baptized 22 October 1728.
(1) Johann Heinrich Brill married on 17 March 1747 in Neuenschmidten to Barbara Elisabeth Erbe, daughter of Johann Peter Erbe.
The baptisms of 8 children born to Johann Heinrich Brill & Barbara Elisabeth Erbe are recorded in the parish register of Neuenschmidten: (1) Anna Elisabeth, baptized 30October 1747, died; (2) Maria Elisabeth, baptized 27 December 1750, died; (3) Johann Heinrich, baptized 29 January 1752; (4) Johann Jacob, baptized 13 October 1754; (5) Anna Margaretha, baptized 11 January 1757, died; (6) Conrad, baptized 23 February 1758; (7) Anna Catharina, baptized 24 April 1761; and (8) Elisabeth Catharina, baptized 16 December 1763.
Johann Heinrich Brill, a stonemason, his wife Barbara Helena, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 16; Jakob, age 14; Johann Konrad, age 12; Katharina, age 7; Elisabeth, age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Heinrich Brill (age 53), a farmer, his wife Barbara Elisabeth, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 18; Johann Jakob, age 15; Elisabeth Katharina, age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 73. They had settled there on 15 August 1767.
(2) Johann[es] Briel [sic] & Elisabeth Hahn were married on 2 July 1766 in the Reformed Church in Lübeck. [She may be Eva Elisabeth Hahn who was born 2 December 1744 in Altengronau, the sister of Melchior Hahn - See Hahn Family].
Johann[es] Brill, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Johannes Brill (age 36), a farmer, and his wife Eva Elisabeth are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 77. They had settled there on 15 August 1767.
(3) Johann Heinrich Brill, son of Hans Heinrich Brill from Neuenschmidten married in Rinderbügen on 30 October 1755 to Anna Elisabeth Kropp, daughter of Peter Kropp from Rinderbügen.
The baptisms of two children born to Johann Heinrich Brill & Anna Elisabeth Kropp are recorded in the parish register of Rinderbügen: (1) Johannes, born 4 June 1760, baptized 8 June 1760, died as a child; and (2) Johannes, born 12 December 1763, baptized 18 December 1763.
Heinrich Brill, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and son Johann (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov - along with Anna Elisabeth's brother Johann Jakob Gropp and mother Anna Maria.
Heinrich Brill (age 30), a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and son Johannes (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Norka in Household No. 76. They had settled there on 15 August 1767.
Heinrich Brill (senior), his son Johann Heinrich & daughter-in-law Elisabeth, and his son Jakob & granddaughter Anna Margaretha (age 1) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 8.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that each of these Brill families came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Norka Census (Household No. 8).
- 1811 Norka Census (Households No. 37, 92, 97, 168).
- Decker, Klaus-Peter. Die Auswanderung von 1766/67 aus der Grafschaft Ysenburg-Büdingen nach Russland (p. 103).
- 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): Nr037, Nr092, Nr097, Nr168.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1195.
- Parish register of Hellstein (including Neuenschmidten).
- Parish register of Rinderbügen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 248, 249.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3996, #4081, #4082.
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