Maximilian Rothermel, a hosier (Strumpfwirker), his wife Katharina, and children (Friedrich, age 5¼; Maria, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Maximilian Rothermel, his wife Catharina, and children (Friedrich, age 5; Louisa, age 2) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 18.
In 1796, Ludwig Rothermel moved from Orlovskaya to Meinhard.
Ludwig Rothermel and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 233.
In 1796, Georg Rothermel moved from Orlovskaya to Näb.
The 1767 census records that Maximilian Rothermel came from the German village of Wolfhagen in the region of Kassel.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 233).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 193.
- 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): Mn21, Nb12, Or29, Mv2186, Mv2189.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 315.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1298.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1158-1161.
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