Bernhard Röder, a single tobacco master (Tabakmeister), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Kamenka on 20 June 1767 and is recorded there as a potter (Töpfer) on the 1767 census in Household No. 96 along with the Johann Rekowski family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Röder and Rekowski families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Bernhard Röder came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that he came from the village of Orb.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Röder family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 236.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 241.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1686.
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