Brott (Orlovskaya)*
Spelling Variations:
Brott (Orlovskaya)*
Бротъ (Orlovskaya)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Widow Elisabeth Brott settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 3 August 1767. She is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 93.
The 1767 census records that Elisabeth Brott came from the German village of Silkerode.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Brott family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 330.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai