Johannes Wilhelm Gertgen from Weinolsheim married on 17 August 1757 to Anna Maria Weppner from Welgesheim.
Johannes Wep[p]ner, illegitimate son of Anna Maria Wep[p]ner from Welgesheim, was born 1 June 1756. His birth is recorded in the parish register of Alzey along with a note naming the father as Johann Wilhelm Gärtgen from Weinolsheim and that the mother married him the following year.
Wilhelm Gertje, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johannes, age 9; Magdalena, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.
Wilhelm Gertje, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johannes, age 12; Magdalena, age 10; Anna Maria, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rothammel in Household No. 8. They had settled in Rothammel on 21 August 1767.
Wilhelm Gertje, his [new] wife Magdalena Rekowsky, and children (Georg [sic], age 18; Lorenz, age 7; Johannes, age 5; Anna Maria, age 3) are recorded on the 1798 census of Rothammel in Household No. Rt33.
The death of Wilhelm Gertje in 1801 is recorded on the 1811 census of Rothammel in Household No. 33.
Johann Peter [sic] Gertje is recorded on the 1811 census of Rothammel in Household No. 33 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Brabander [year not recorded].
Georg [sic] Gertje from Rothammel and his sons are recorded on the 1811 census of Brabander in Household No. 82 along with a note that he had arrived in Brabander in 1802.
Johannes Gertje, son of Wilhelm Gertje, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rothammel in Household No. Rt22.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Gertje came from the German region of Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Gertje came from the German village of Waldalgesheim [Welgesheim] in the Kurpfalz region.
- 1811 Brabander Census (Household No. 82).
- 1811 Rothammel Census (Household No. 33).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 734.
- 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): Rt22, Rt33.
- Parish register of the Catholic Church in Alzey (including Weinolsheim).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 83.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5869.
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