Herrlein (Brabander)*
Spelling Variations:
Herrlein (Brabander)*
Герлейнъ (Brabander)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Jakob Herrlein, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and daughters (Maria Elisabeth, age 17; Katharina, age 12) are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 33. They had settled there on 11 August 1767.
The 1767 census records that Johann Jakob Herrlein came from the German village of Genkingen in the Siekingen region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Herrlein family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 222.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai