Brofft Genealogy and Brofft Family History Information

The best we can determine is that around 1730 a Franz Brofft or Broft was born and he emigrated from his small village to Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. The records in Germany show that the name was more often spelled with a double F rather than a single F. However there are BROFT and BROFTOVA's buried in the cemetery in Kostomlaty pod Řípem, Czech Republic today. Kostomlaty pod Řípem is a village and municipality in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It lies just 3 km from the Říp mountain. The next nearest connection we can make is to BROFT in Prague where at least a dozen or more are buried. But none of them go back beyond 1800.

So we have a brick wall that stops in Kostomlaty approximately 1730. I have found 1840 land records that show Johannes Brofft, a grandson of the Franz who emigrated, buying up over a dozen small farms within the municipality which covers an area of 7.89 square kilometres (3.05 sq mi). Johannes at that time was an Architect and Builder in Frankfurt as were a few more brothers and some cousins. Apparently the trade which was passed down to Franz BROFFT son was morphed from being a steinmetzmeister and a mauermeister into building and then Architecture.