Peter Bruckmann, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and daughter Maria (age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Peter Bruckmann, a widowed farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 59 along with his two stepsons, Johannes Neuhaus (age 17) & Christian Neuhaus (age 13). The Neuhaus brothers settled in the colony of Bettinger in 1768, and it is assumed that Peter Bruckmann settled there with them.
The 1767 census records that Peter Bruckmann came from the German village of Schwelm.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bruckmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 208.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4507.
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