Spelling Variations
Gige*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Widower Lastinus Gige [?], a sheepskin tanner (Schaffelgerber), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 3 August 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 174.
The 1767 census records that Lastinus Gige [?] came from the German village of Eisenach in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 312.
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Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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