Hans [Georg] Gebert, a farmer, his wife Kunigunda, and children (Margaretha, age 13; Nikolaus, age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Georg Gaber [sic], his wife Cunigunda, and children (Margretha, age 13; Nicolaus, age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Margretha died en route.
Georg Gebert, his wife Kunigunde, and son Nikolaus (age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 12. They had settled in Hölzel on 11 September 1767.
In 1793, Nikolaus Gerbert moved to Hölzel to Hildmann.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Gebert came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Schlockenau in the Bamberg 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): Hd12, Mv0948.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 112.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6169.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7690-7693.
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