Giesler*

Jacob Gießler (age 38), a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth Buffi (age 28), and children (Maria Catharina, age 17; Johann Jacob, age 16; Maria Amalia, age 12; Maria Elisabeth, age 3; Philipp Jacob, age 2; Johann Peter, age ¼) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 6 September 1765. A note on this list records that daughter Maria Elisabeth died in Hamburg in route to Russia.

Jakob [Gießler] (age 18) and his sister Amalia (age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schuck in Household No. 33 along with their mother and stepfather Heinrich Göttich. They had arrived in Schuck on 1 May 1767.

Jakob Giesler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Kamenka in Household No. Km100.

The 1765 Worms list records that Jacob Gießler came from the German village of Breitenheim.

There are no known surviving male lines of this Gießler family among the Volga German colonies.