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Who are the parents of Jean Gille?

He had nine children by his wife, Marguerite.

They were Jean, August, Antoine, Champierre, Hortense, Phillipine, Marimale, Fritz, and Catherine. 

Catherine, who was born on October 10th, 1847, immigrated to the United States in 1883. 

Name:	Catha. Rettberg
Event Type:	Immigration
Event Date:	23 Jun 1883
Event Place:	New York, New York, New York, United States
Gender:	Female
Age:	35
Birthplace:	Germany
Occupation:	Farmer
Ship Name:	Schiedam
Birth Year (Estimated):	1848
Departure Port:	Amsterdam
Literacy:	Unknown
Destination Place:	Usa
Transit or Travel Compartment:	Staying in the USA [Transit]; Steerage [Travel]
Affiliate Manifest ID:	00037403
Affiliate ARC Identifier:	1746067

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do have birth date  Jean Gille.and place born Germany.Did he

live USA

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I believe he was born in Mariendorf, a locality in Berlin. He may have been born in 1821. I am uncertain whether or not he immigrated to the United States.

Answer 1

The names are all French not German.   So I wonder if these folks came from the Alsace or Lorraine areas that went back and forth between France and Germany.    You might find this WT resource site of interest.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Alsace_%E2%80%93_Lorraine_/_Elsass_%E2%80%93_Lothringen

What I see happen a lot is when Germans would move to France they changed names like Katharina to Catherine, Jacob to Jaques etc.  Except in Alsace Lorraine where they were more and still are more multilingual.  I would assume the same would happen with French families moving to Germany that they would adopt the German spellings to try to fit in.  Just a thought...  these names are very French.  

The Alsatian dialect is very German sounding but it is really more French in the actual words.   

https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/map-surname/

This shows where in Germany that surname currently exists.  https://geogen.stoepel.net/

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Catherine was originally from Mariendorf, a settlement established by French Huguenots. Catherine is believed to be a descendant of a Protestant French noble who fled Paris in the wake of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and sought refuge in Germany.