The baptism of Franciscus Brunguard, son of Mathias Brunguard & Anna Margaretha Guiot of Stambach, is recorded in the parish register of the Catholic church in Contwig on 17 February 1709.
Franciscus Brunguard married on 20 Novemer 1731 in Contwig to Anna Magdalena Schoenberger, daughter of Johann Jacob Schoenberger & Susanna Bartau of Stambach.
The baptisms of the following children born to Franciscus Brungard & Anna Magdalena Schoenberger are recorded in the parish register of Contwig: (1) Maria Barbara, born about 1733, died 11 March 1736; (2) Maria Magdalena, baptized 2 December 1733; (3) Maria Margaretha, baptized 21 September 1735; (4) Catharina Elisabeth, baptized 6 October 1737, died in 1738; (5) Maria Barbara, baptized 20 August 1742, died 17 May 1743; (6) Franciscus Peter, baptized 13 March 1744; (7) Maria Barbara, baptized 27 August 1739, died 28 January 1741; and (8) Maria Barbara, baptized 22 April 1747, died 13 August 1756.
Anna Magdalena Brunguard née Schoenberger died 19 May 1760 in Stambach at the age of 58 years.
Maria Margaretha Brungardt married on 27 October 1761 in Weisbach to Anton Artzer. [See Artzer Family.]
Maria Magdalena Brunguard married on 5 May 1761 in Contwig to Peter Auer, son of Sebastian Auer & Maria Catharina Blum from Breitfurt. [See Auer Family.]
Franciscus (Franz) Peter Brungard married on 28 May 1765 in Roßlau to Anna Maria Müller.
Franz Brungardt, a farmer, and his wife Susanna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Franz Brungardt came from the German region of Zweibrücken. The 1767 census records that Franz Brungardt came from the German village of Stambach in the region of Zweibrücken.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Brungardt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 428.
- Parish register of Contwig (LDS Film #489413).
- Parish register of Wiesbach (LDS Film #247677).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 175.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3338.
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