The
Gette family appears to have developed in the Alsace-Lorraine and
Rhine-Main regions in Germany and France. The surname is essentially a
French rendering of the German surname Goethe. It is found in both
countries today. We have located two different but similar family crests
for the Gette name and both are shown.
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, Canada and Argentina (early 1900's); while the French Gettes immigrated to the United States much earlier. The first Gette appears in North America in 1653 and he was Urban Gette in Montreal, Canada.
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).
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