Gertje
Wilhelm Gertje, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johannes, age 9; Magdalena, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.
Wilhelm Gertje, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Johannes, age 12; Magdalena, age 10; Anna Maria, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rothammel in Household No. 8. They had settled in Rothammel on 21 August 1767.
Wilhelm Gertje, his [new] wife Magdalena Rekowsky, and children (Georg [sic], age 18; Lorenz, age 7; Johannes, age 5; Anna Maria, age 3) are recorded on the 1798 census of Rothammel in Household No. Rt33.
The death of Wilhelm Gertje in 1801 is recorded on the 1811 census of Rothammel in Household No. 33.
Johann Peter [sic] Gertje is recorded on the 1811 census of Rothammel in Household No. 33 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Brabander [year not recorded].
Georg [sic] Gertje from Rothammel and his sons are recorded on the 1811 census of Brabander in Household No. 82 along with a note that he had arrived in Brabander in 1802.
Johannes Gertje, son of Wilhelm Gertje, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rothammel in Household No. Rt22.
The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Gertje came from the German village of Waldalgesheim in the Kurpfalz region.
- 1811 Brabander Census (Household No. 82).
- 1811 Rothammel Census (Household No. 33).
- 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): Rt22, Rt33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 83.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5869.
Brent Mai