Spelling Variations
Gilge*
Settled in the Following Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Discussion & Documentation
Joseph Gilge, a single leatherworker (Lederarbeiter), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 200.
The 1767 census records that Joseph Gilge came from the German village of Weisenau.
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): 317.
Contributor(s) to this page
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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Volga Colonies
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