Gehre*
An article by Hermann Wäschke records the following:
Andreas Gehre, a soldier (Soldat) from the Anhalt-Bernburg Regiment, with his wife and son, from Quellendorf. His house went to his father, Heinrich Gehre, of Quellendorf.
Andreas Gehre, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Andreas Goere, his wife Anna, and son Peter (born and died en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Andreas Geher, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna settled in the Volga German colony of Boisroux on 7 June 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.
In 1787, Andreas Geher moved from Boisroux to Herzog. He is recorded there on the 1798 census in Household No. Hr23.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Hr23.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1068.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 147.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1330.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1155-1157.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 87.
Brent Mai