Nikolaus Rolising [sic], a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife, and son Anton (age 9) settled in the Volga German colony of Franzosen. They are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 48.
In 1790, Anton Rolsing and his family moved from Franzosen to Seelmann.
Anton Rolsing and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm47.
The death of Anton Rolsing in 1820 is recorded on the 1834 census of Seelmann in Household No. 78.
The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Rolising came from the German region of Hamburg.
- 1834 Seelmann Census (Households No. 35, 64, 65, 78).
- 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): Sm47, Mv0647.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 451.
Brent Mai