Johann Simon Gehlinger, Leonhard Gehlinger & Elisabetha Friedrich, was born 7 September 1737 in Kirch-Beerfurth. He married on 24 October 1758 in Fränkisch-Crumbach to Elisabetha Agnesia Jacob from Heppenheim.
Johannes Gehlinger, son of Simon Gehlinger & Elisabetha Agnesia Jacob, was born 7 October 1759 in Raidelbach.
Simon Gehlinger (age 30), a farmer, his wife Agnessa (age 40), children (Anna Maria, age 5; Peter, age 1), and [step-]son Johann Leonhard [Hochnagel] (age 16) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 11. They had arrived in Schuck on 18 July 1766.
Agnessa Jäbel née Jakob (widow of Simon Gehlinger) (age 66) and her son Balthasar Gehlinger (age 26) are recorded on the 1798 census of Schuck in Household No. Su17.
Balthasar Gehlinger and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Schuck in Household No. 8.
The 1767 census records that Simon Gehlinger came from the German village of [Kirch-Be]Erfurth in the Kurpfalz region. [Kirch-Beerfurth is located a few kilometers east of Raidelbach.
- 1834 Schuck Census (Household No. 8).
- Kirchnick, Ulrich. Ortsfamilienbuch Raidelbach [Online]
- 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): Su17.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 113.
- Wolf, Heiner. Ortsfamilienbuch Kirch-Beerfurth [Online]
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