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Early photo of two Gette family members dressed in the Tsar's military uniforms. Courtesy of David Gette of Germany.
The Gette family appears to have originated in Germany and France. Not as strange as it sounds! The two countries share a common border and Gette descendants can be found on both sides. There appear to be many variations of the name including: Gette, Goetten, Gete, Geten, and Getten. Our immediate Gette family has been identified as Germans from Russia and appear to be rather recent immigrants to the United States (early 1900's); while the French Gettes immigrated to the United States much earlier. As far as the Gettes who lived in Russia, it appears that they moved to Russia during the time of Catherine the Great when Catherine brought many of her fellow countrymen to Russia. We have traced the John Gette and George Gette families to the Village of Semenovka in Russia where we have located the 1798 census that confirms that Christian, Friedrich, Johann Adam, Kasper, Klara Elisabetha, Margareta, Maria Theresia and Valentin Gette were living at the time. Thanks to research by George Gette of Regina, Sask., Canada and Viktor Gette, who in his retirement years and while awaiting his documents for Germany, did research at the archives of Saratov, we have traced the family to Christian Goetten (Gette) who was born about 1733. We are are now attempting to trace these three Gette families. They are: John and Teresa Gette, George and Anna Marie Gette and Christian Goetten (Gette). |
