Gerhard [sic] Gillig, a farmer, his wife Magdalena, and son Georg (3-weeks-old) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766.
Gerhard Jülich [sic] and his wife Margreta Teresia are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Ergarhart [sic] Gillig and his wife Magdalena are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 133) attached to the 1767 census of the Volga German colonies along with a note that they settled in the colony of Wittmann in 1768.
Erhardt [sic] Gillig and his wife are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm21.
The death of Eradus Kili [sic] on 10 October 1811 is recorded in the parish register of Wittmann.
The 1767 census records that Erhart [sic] Gillig came from the German village of Susselfar [Schlüsselfeld?] in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gillig family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Wm21.
- Parish register of Wittmann.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 375.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4415.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6124-6125.
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