Johann Peter Rosenbach, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Marianna, age 13; Maria Christina, age 10¼; Anna Elisabeth, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
In 1796, widow Charlotta Rosenbach and her family moved from Köhler to Semenovka.
Johannes Rosenbach and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 68.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Peter Rosenbach came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 68).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 495.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kl25, Kl26, Kl47, Se47, Mv1336.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 372.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3884.
Brent Mai