Johann Christoph Arnhold, a farmer, and his wife Katharina Barbara settled in the Volga German colony of Rosenheim on 15 March 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 57.
The 1767 census records that Johann Christoph Arnhold came from the village of Sackfeld in Austria.
Christoph Arnhold and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm01.
The death of Johannes Arnhold, son of Christoph Arnhold, in 1832 is recorded on the 1834 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 61.
Christian Adam Arnhold, son of Johannes Arnhold, is recorded on the 1834 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 61 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Nieder-Monjou in 1823.
The Eichhorns record that this family could have moved to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) before immigrating to Russia. However, the family that they have identified came from the Württemberg region in Germany which doesn't match what is recorded in the 1767 census of Rosenheim.
- 1834 Rosenheim Census (Household No. 61).
- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): B-33.
- 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): Rm01.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 76.
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