Georg Gottlieb Lerch migrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) arriving in the city of Schleswig on 9 May 1761 as the servant of Johann Georg Jost. He swore allegiance to King Friedrich of Denmark on 24 July 1761.
The parish register of St. Michael's Church in Schleswig records on 25 March 1762 the marriage of Gottlieb Lerch and Catharina Schelin.
On 21 September 1762, they are recorded on the farmstead of Ranzau Hof in the Danish colony of Friderichsfeld.
Gottlieb Lerch deserted the Danish colonies in July 1763 without his wife and joined the migration to Russia.
Gottlieb Lerch, a farmer, his [new] wife Katharina, and son Christian (age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schäfer in Household No. 9. They had arrived in Schäfer on 1 August 1766.
Gottlieb Lerch and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Schäfer in Household No. Sf20 along with a note that he is living in Pokrovsk [a neighborhood of Engels].
The Eichhorn book records that Georg Gottlieb Lerch came from the German region of Baden-Durlach. The 1767 census records that Gottlieb Lerch came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-972.
- 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): Sf20.
- Parish register of St. Michael's Church in Schleswig [Denmark].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 91.
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