Johann Brokli [sic], a gloves maker, his wife Anna Sophia, and sons (Johann Gottfried, age 4; Friedrich, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a Danish galliot named Der Engel Rafael (Archangel Raphael) under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. His wife Anna Sophia died on 27 August 1767. The surviving members of the family are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 107.
The 1767 census records that Johann Brokei was a master tanner of suede (German = Sämischgerbermeister; Russian = мастер замшевый).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that he came from Prussia while the 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Stolb in the Nassau region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 445.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 337.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3470.
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