Andreas Gehre was born 17 September 1734 in Quellendorf.
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 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Andreas Goere [sic], 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 Gehre, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 34. The had arrived in Boisroux on 7 June 1767.
In 1771, widow Anna Maria Gehre moved from Boisroux and married Andreas Schäfer in Philippsfeld. She took her son Christian with her.
The 1798 census of Philippsfeld records widow Johanna [sic] Maria Schäfer in Household No. Pp07 and that she is living with relatives in Basel where her son Christian Gehre is working.
The death of Christian Gehre in 1818 is recorded on the 1834 census of Philippsfeld in Household No. 41.
Philipp & Michael Gehre, sons of Christian Gehre, are recorded on the 1850 census of Philippsfeld in Household No. 69 along with a note that Philipp moved to the daughter colony of Lilienfeld.
Johann Philipp Jere and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Lilienfeld in Household No. 29 along with a note that they had arrived from Philippsfeld in 1850.
Johann Philipp Jere and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Lilienfeld in Household No. 29.
Georg Michael Gehre and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Philippsfeld in Household No. 73.
Georg Michael Jere and his family are recorded on an 1865 list of families moving to Lilienfeld along with a note that they had arrived from Philippsfeld on 7 March 1859.
The Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Andreas Gehre came from the German region of Dessau.
- 1834 Philippsfeld Census (Household No. 41).
- 1850 Lilienfeld Census (Household No. 29).
- 1850 Philippsfeld Census (Household No. 69).
- 1857 Lilienfeld Census (Household No. 29).
- 1857 Philippsfeld Census (Household No. 73).
- 1865 Lilienfeld List.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 197.
- 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): Pp07, Mv0267.
- 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.
- Parish register of Quellendorf.
- 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.
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