Brungardt (Grimm)
Johann Caspar Brunckhardt married in Büdesheim on 15 May 1721 to Anna Gertraud Köhler.
The baptisms of two children born to Johann Caspar Brunckhardt & Anna Gertraud Köhler are recorded in the parish register of Büdesheim: (1) Johann Wilhelm Brunckhardt, born 4 January 1726, baptized 6 January 1726; and (2) Anna Elisabeth, born 26 September 1727, baptized 28 September 1727.
(1) Johann Wilhelm Brunckhardt, a stocking weaver, married on 26 February 1754 in Büdesheim to Anna Maria Clees.
Anna Maria Clees, daughter of Johann Wilhelm & Anna Maria Clees, had been born on 26 July 1737 and baptized 28 July 1737 in Büdesheim.
The baptisms of six children born to Johann Wilhelm Brunckhardt & Anna Maria Clees are recorded in the parish register of Büdesheim: (1) Johann Caspar, born 30 March 1755, baptized 1 April 1755, died 15 April 1755; (2) Anna Catharina, born 14 August 1756, baptized 16 August 1756; (3) Andreas, born 17 December 1758, baptized 19 December 1758; (4) Anna Elisabetha, born 15 July 1760, baptized 16 July 1760, died 26 October 1761; (5) Maria Christina, born 26 August 1762, baptized 27 August 1762, died 21 October 1762?; and (6) Sophia Gertruda, born 27 January 1766, baptized 28 January 1766.
Wilhelm Brungardt, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna Katharina, age 10½; Andreas, age 8; Sophia Gertruda, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
Wilhelm Brungardt, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Maria, and children (Anna Katharina, age 12; Andreas, age 9; Sophia Gertrude, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Grimm in Household No. 83.
Wilhelm Brungardt and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 157.
(2) Anna Elisabeth Brunckhardt married in Büdesheim on 13 May 1756 to Philipp Beüermann. [See Biermann Family.]
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list & the 1767 census record that Wilhelm Brungardt came from the German district of Friedberg.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 157).
- 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): Gm029.
- Parish register of Büdesheim.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 84.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5174.
Brent Mai
Maggie Hein