Gerome Bertrand, a hatmaker (fabricant de chapeaux), age 30, and his unnamed wife, a seamstress (couturière), age 26, are recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764.
Jerauld [sic] Bertrand, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen on 28 July 1765. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 7.
The 1764 list of colonists records that Gerome Bertrand came from the French coastal region of Languedoc and that his wife came from the German village of Hannover. The 1767 census records that Jerauld Bertrand came from the French region of Bordeaux.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 442.
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