First Generation

1. Georg Friedrich GERKE¹ was christened on 2 October 1747 in Hameln, Hanover, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Province, Preussen (Prussia).²

Georg Friedrich GERKE and Dorothea Cathrin TEWES were married on 28 December 1766 in Varlosen, Hanover, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Province, Preussen (Prussia).² Dorothea Cathrin TEWES was born on 4 January 1747 in Oberscheden, Munden, Hanover, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Province, Preussen (Prussia).² She died on 1 June 1807 at the age of 60 in Dransfeld, nach Gottingen, Hanover, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Province, Preussen (Prussia).²

Georg Friedrich GERKE and Dorothea Cathrin TEWES had the following children:

2	i.	Heinrich Christoph GERKE was born on 14 October 1767 in Dransfeld, nach Gottingen, Hanover, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Province, Preussen (Prussia).² He died on 26 June 1775 at the age of 7 in Dransfeld, nach Gottingen, Hanover, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Province, Preussen (Prussia).²
3	ii.	Maria Juliane GERKE died on 12 May 1781 in Dransfeld, nach Gottingen, Hanover, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) Province, Preussen (Prussia).^2,3
4	iii.	Johann Andreas Tobias GERKE was born (date unknown).
+5	iv.	Johann Heinrich GERKE.