Gors
Spelling Variations:
Gors
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Lambert Gors (age 14), 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.
The 1767 census records that Lambert Gors came from the village of Ruisseveen near Amsterdam in Holland.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 319.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai