Lambert Gors (age 14 [perhaps 19]), a single day-laborer, settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 212.
Lambert Gors (age 29), a fischerman (Fischer), and his wife Elisabeth née Vogel (widow Müller) (age 35), and step-sons (Mattias Müller, age 7½; Christian Müller, age 6) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 38 along with a note that Christian Müller died in 1777. [See Müller Family.]
The 1767 census records that Lambert Gors came from the village of Ruisseveen near Amsterdam in Holland. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Lambert Gors came from the village of of Rhyesteween in Holland and that his wife is from the German village of Gross Umstadt in the region of Hessen-Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Gors family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 38).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 319.
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