Peter Bracht [sic], a miner (Erzbergbauarbeiter), his wife Anna, and son Peter (age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
Peter Bracht [sic] (age 26) , a miner (Erzbergbauarbeiter), and his [new] wife Johanna Maria (age 26) are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 2 along with the orphaned brothers Johannes Richelhof (age 18) and Bartolomeus Richelhof (age 8). They had arrived in Keller on 12 May 1767. [See Riegelhoff Family.]
Following the destruction of Keller in 1774, the family relocated to Neu-Kolonie.
Peter Pracht and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk30 along with a note that they are now in the colony of Volmer.
The death of Peter Pracht (age 64) of Neu-Kolonie is recorded on 6 January 1804 in the parish register of Preuss.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Bracht [sic] came from the German region of Köln. The 1767 census records that Peter Bracht [sic] came from the German village of Bruchhausen in the Kurpfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Pracht family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 145.
- 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): Nk30.
- Parish register of Preuss.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 341.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #886.
Brent Mai