Spelling Variations
Gerlach (Keller)
Герлахъ (Keller)
Settled in the Following Colonies
Discussion & Documentation
Andreas Gerlach, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the hooker Anna Catharina under the Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
The 1767 census records that Andreas Gerlach came from the German village of Hausen [?] in the Hessen-Kassel region.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 345.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #872.
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