Gertraude (Alt) Schleuning (1833)

Born 5 Jul 1833 in Norka, Saratov, Volga Russia

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Died [date unknown] in Nebraska

Biography

Gertraude (Alt) Schleuning was a Volga German.

Gertraude (Alt) Schleuning has German Roots.

Family #100 in the 1834 Norka census.

Family #355 in the 1857 Norka census.

Gertrude Alt was born in 1833 in Norka, Russia, to parents Johannes Alt and Anna Maria Repp. ^[1]

She was a direct descendant of Heinrich Alt and his wife Gertrude Vogel, two of the first settlers of the Village of Norka. ^{[2] [3]} He was a originally a farmer from Schwarzenfels, Hessen. ^[4]

According to the Kulberg Reports, Heinrich and Gertrude Alt immigrated to Russia on 09 August 1766, arriving in St. Petersburg, Russia, on the Russian Galliot Strel 'na under the command of Lt. Sornev. ^[5]

When the family first immigrated from Germany to Russia in 1766, they had no children, but by 1767 they had a 3-month-old daughter named Magdalena. ^[6] In 1775, they had two more children, sons Nikolaus, born 1769, and Johann Just, born 1772. ^[7]

By 1798, daughter Magdalena was no longer living with the family and was probably married and living with her husband's family; Johann Just was also missing from the census and may have passed away. ^[8] Son Nikolaus is there with his wife and two, one of whom was Anna Catharina's grandfather, Johann Heinrich Alt, born in 1810. See Johann Heinrich, 3 months old in the 1811 census. ^[9]

Gertrude Alt married Heinrich Schleuning in 1853, ^[10] and the couple had at least two children: son Jakob Schleuning, born 1854, and daughter Elisabeth Schleuning, born 1857. The young family is listed in the 1857 census, family #355. ^[11] Note that daughter Elisabeth is not listed in the 1857 census. She must have been born after the census takers took family information from her parents.

Sources

1. ↑ 1834 Census of Norka in the District of Saratov, Russia, Dated 20 December 1834, translated by Dr. Brent Mai, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. Published by Dynasty Publishing; Published 2011; Revised Edition; page 31, family #100, line 1098, Gertaude Alt, age 1.
2. ↑ Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, Herausgegeben von Alfred Eisfeld under Mitarbeit von Sabine Eichwald, Published by the Nordost-Instsitut - 38085 Göttingen, 2005; page 262, family #125, Heinrich Alt, 33, Reformed Lutheran, farmer from Schwarzenfels, Hesse. Wife: Gertrude, age 24; daughter Magdalens, age 3 months.
3. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Censuses of the German Colony on the Volga Norka, also known as Weigand; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published 1995; family #54, Heinrich Alt, age 67, and wife Gertrude Vogel.
4. ↑ Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, page 262.
5. ↑ Pleve, Igor. List of Colonists to Russia in 1766, "Reports by Ivan Kulberg," Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation, Saratov State Technical University; Published in Saratov, Russia 2010; page 317, Johann Heinrich Alt, Reformed Lutheran farmer from Hessen, document number 4978, wife Getrude.
6. ↑ Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767, page 262.
7. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Censuses of the German Colony on the Volga Norka, also known as Weigand; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published 1995; page 10, family #54, Heinrich Alt, age 44, wife Gertrude, age 34, son Nikolaus, age 6, son Johann Jost, age 3, daughter Magdalena, age 8.
8. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Censuses of the German Colony on the Volga Norka, also known as Weigand; Published by the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Published 1995, page 46, daughter Magdalena and son Johann Just are missing from birth family census.
9. ↑ The 1775 and 1798 Censuses of the German Colony on the Volga Norka, also known as Weigand; page 46, family #57, Heinrich Alt age 67, wife Gertrude Vogel, age 58, son Nikolaus, 29, Nikolaus' wife Katarina Elisabeta Arn [Arndt?], age 22, son Johann Heinrich, 3 months old, and daughter Elisabeta, age 2.
10. ↑ The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Norka resource file which includes Norka census records, various Norka church baptism, communion and death records, and descendant family records. Records sourced and maintained by Steve Schreiber, Emeritus Norka Village Coordinator, and Louis Schleuger, Norka Village Database Manager. See: http://www.ahsgr.org/.
11. ↑ 1857 Census of Norka in the District of Saratov, Russia, Dated 21 January 1858, Translated by Dr. Brent Mai, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. Published by Dynasty Publishing; Published 2008; page 158, family #355, line 5617, Gertraude Schleuning, age 25.

• 1834 Census of Norka in the District of Saratov, Russia, Dated 20 December 1834, translated by Dr. Brent Mai, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. Published by Dynasty Publishing; Published 2011; Revised Edition; page 31, family #100, line 1098, Gertaude Alt, age 1.

• 1857 Census of Norka in the District of Saratov, Russia, Dated 21 January 1858, Translated by Dr. Brent Mai, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. Published by Dynasty Publishing; Published 2008; page 158, family #355, line 5617, Gertraude Schleuning, age 25, wife of Heinich Schleuning, age 26; mother of Jakob, age 3.

• The American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Norka resource file which includes Norka census records, various Norka church baptism, communion and death records, and descendant family records. Records sourced and maintained by Steve Schreiber, Emeritus Norka Village Coordinator, and Louis Schleuger, Norka Village Database Manager. See: http://www.ahsgr.org/.