Johann Götte [sic], a single tin maker (Zinnschmied), arrived from Danzig at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Гданьская Надежда (Gdansk Hope) under the command of Skipper Johann Erdmann Geske.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka and is recorded there along with his new wife on the 1767 census in Household No. 66.
Johann Gedde [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Husaren in Household No. Hn32.
Reinhardt Jette, son of Johann Jette, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 57.
Reinhardt Jette and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Husaren in Household No. 60.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Götte is a tin maker while the 1767 census records that he is a stove maker (Ofenmacher). The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Götte came from Ester, perhaps referring to an area in the mountains of southern Bavaria. The 1767 census records that Johann Götte is from Italy.
The spelling of this surname varies through the years including: Gedde, Gette, Getty, Jette, Yede, Yedo
- 1834 Husaren Census (Household No. 57).
- 1857 Husaren Census (Household No. 60).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 83.
- 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): Hn32.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 232.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #317.
Brent Mai