Gertrude Amer arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Gertruda Amer is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It appears that Gertrude Amer married widower Cornelius Deisling whose family had been traveling with her on the same ship arriving in Oranienbaum and is recorded on the same transport list with them in 1767. [See Deisling Family.]
Widow Gertrude Teusel and [step-]sons (Johannes, age 12; Heinrich, age 3) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No. 36 [and repeated in Household No. 68].
It is believed that the Deisling family settled in the colony of Schönchen, because in 1789, Heinrich Deisling moved from Schönchen to Graf.
Heinrich Deisling from Schönchen and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm09.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Gertrude Teusel [sic] came from The Netherlands. The 1767 census records that she came from the village of Dachwig [perhaps The Hague].
There are no known surviving male lines of this Amer family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 212, 217.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4503.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4871.
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