Klaus Brunckhorst, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Katharina [age not recorded] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a ship named Der Junge Heinrich (The Young Henry) under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Nikolaus Heinrich Brunckhorst (age 28), a farmer, his wife Katharina (age 32), and stepdaughter Katharina Elisabeth [surname not recorded] (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Tarlyk in Household No. 22. They had arrived in Stahl am Tarlyk on 13 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Klaus Brunckhorst came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that NIkolaus Brunckhorst came from the German village of Wilhelmsburg in the region of Hamburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 291.
- 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): St04.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 209.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2130.
Brent Mai