Anna Catharina (Braun) Lohnes (1751 - aft. 1798)

Born 23 Apr 1751 in Bergheim, Kr. Wetterau, Hessen

Wife of Johann Peter (Lohnes) Lenz — married before 1794 in Walter, Saratov, Volga, Russia

Died after 1798 after age 46 in Walter, Saratov, Volga, Russia

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Biography

Anna Catharina (Braun) Lohnes was a Volga German.

Anna Catharina (Braun) Lohnes has German Roots.

Anna Catharina Braun was born on 23 Apr 1751 in Heckenbergheim, which is now Bergheim, Kr. Wetterau, Hessen.^[1]

Her family came to the Volga German colonies and settled in Walter.

Catharina married Johann Peter Lohnes, a widower who was twelve years older than she.

She died sometime after 1798 in Walter.

Johann Heinrich Braun and Elisabetha Catharina Seitz, daughter of Johannes Seitz, married in Heckenbergheim on 8 January 1751. The births and baptisms of two of their children have been located in the parish records of Heckenbergheim: (1) Anna Catharina, born 23 April 1751; and (2) Johannes, born 13 May 1761.

[Johann] Heinrich Braun, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Hermann Anderson.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Walter on 25 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 80.

The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Braun came from the German village of Deckerbergheim in the Hanau region.^[2]

• First Settlers of Walter List of 1767
  • 80: Johann Heinrich Braun, 48, Lutheran, Hanau county, village of Hekenbergheim, farmer
    • Wife: Katharina, age 46
      • Son: Johann, age 6
      • Daughter: Katharina, age 17

Walter Census

Family #47 in the 1798 Census^[3]

1798 Census of Walter, Saratov, Russia

No. 47

1. Lones, Peter, age 60 [Has not made a 3-ruble payment for four years]
2. Katarina Braun, wife, age 48
3. Katarina, daughter, age 25 [Peter's daughter by deceased wife]
4. Bretthauer, Johann Georg, age 26, husband to Katarina
5. Anna Eva, daughter, age 4
6. Anna Katarina Margareta, age 1/2

Sources

1. ↑ Deckerbergheim, Hanau|Maggie Hein Research Hein, Maggie. VolgaGermans.org; 15 Jan 2021.
2. ↑ Braun|Walter|Hein/Mai
   • 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): Wt027.
   • Parish records of Heckenbergheim.
   • Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 313.
   • Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6581.
3. ↑ 1798 Walter Census, No. 2862 A Description of the Saratov Colony of Grechinaya Luka also known as Walter, no. 143; American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, NE, USA. Published 1996. Page 10 Register, Family #47 Lones, Peter, total of 2 males and 4 females in household.