Vincent Gross was born about 1787 in the village of Künzig.
He served as a soldier in the 3rd Light Cavalry Regiment of Napoleon's Army. He fought against the Russians and was captured.
Milovidov records that as of 1814 Vincent Gross had a father, mother, two brothers, and a sister still living in the village of Künzig.
He is recorded among the captured Napoleonic soldiers who were settled among the Volga German colonies, but it is not known in which colony he was settled.
Belousov records that Vincent Gross was settled in the Volga German colony of Pobochnaya in 1814, but he has not been located on documents there.
Milovidov records that Vincent Gross came from the French town of Künzig (French = Kuntzig) where he had been a peasant.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gross family among the Volga German colonies.
- Belousov, S.V. "Prisoners of war of Napoleon's army in the Volga region: the arrangement, content, relationships with the local population." Bulletin of the Samara State University, No. 1 (Samara, Russia: Samara State University, 2006): 48-55.
- Milovidov, B. P. "Prisoners of War of the Napoleonic Army in the Saratov Colonies in 1813-1820: New Documents." (p. 46, #78)
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