Brug
Heinrich Brug (age 19) and his siblings Peter (age 17), Nikolaus (age 14), Jakob (age 11), and Katharina Elisabeth (age 4) are recorded on the 1767 census of Bauer in Household No. 17 along with their mother and stepfather, Johann Heinrich von Anben. [See von Anben Family.] They had arrived in Bauer on 20 July 1766.
(1) Johann Heinrich Brug (born about 1746) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br69.
(2) The widow of Peter Brug and their son (Philipp, born about 1773) are recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms47.
Christoph Brug (born about 1776), son of Peter Brug, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms53.
(3) Nikolaus Brug (born about 1757) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Merkel in Household No. Mr15.
(4) Jakob Brug (born about 1759) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br71.
The 1767 census records that the Brug family came from the German village of Welkenbach in the Kurpfalz region.
- 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): Br69, Br71, Mr15, Ms47, Ms53.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 120.
Brent Mai