Peter Gärtner, a farmer, his wife Maria Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Eva (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 4. They had arrived in Volmer on 18 July 1766.
It is believed that the youngest children (Johann Adam, age 5; Anna Maria, age 2, Peter, age 1½) recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 2 are actually step-children of Lorenz Schroh and have the surname of Gärtner.
The widow of Peter Gärtner and their daughter are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm27.
Maria Eva Littig Lei née Gärtner and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm13.
Johann Adam Gärtner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm03.
The 1767 census records that Peter Gärtner came from the German town of Worms in the Kurpfalz region.
- 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): Vm03, Vm13, Vm16, Vm27.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 286.
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