There are two Bröse families that settled in the Volga German colony of Jost. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Johann Christoph Bröse, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Sophia Dorothea (age 9) settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 19 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 35.
The 1767 census records that Johann Christoph Bröse came from the German village of Mahndorf in the region of Anhalt-Zerbst.
(2) [Widow] Maria Sabina Bröse & Heinrich Koch were married on 11 May 1766 in Roßlau.
Heinrich Koch, a stonemason, his wife Anna Maria [sic], and [step-]sons (Gottlieb [Bröse], age 7; Gottfried [Bröse?], age 4½) 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.
Heinrich Koch, a farmer, and his wife Maria Sabina settled in the Volga German colony of Jost on 5 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 29 along with stepson Gottlieb Bröse [erroneously recorded as Ries] (age 8).
Gottlieb Bröse and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Jost in Household No. Jo03.
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- 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): Jo03.
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Brent Mai