Johann Brendel, a farmer, his wife Ursula, daughter Margaretha (age 3), and [step-]children (Margaretha [Schreck], age 16; Simon [Schreck], age 12; Christoph [Schreck], age 10) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
Johan Brandel [sic], Ursula, daughter Margretha (age 3), and [step-]children (Margretha [Schreck], age 16; Simon [Schreck], age 12; Christoph [Schreck], age 10) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Siblings Margaretha Schreck (age 15), Simon Schreck (age 12), and Christoph Schreck (age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 52 along with their step-father Johann Brendel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schreck family among the Volga German colonies.
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