Johann Gottlieb Roleder [sic] & Margarete Dorothea Brocks [sic] were married on 22 May 1766 in the Lutheran Cathedral (Evangelische Kirche Dom) in Lübeck.
Johann [Gottlieb] Rohleder and his wife Margaretha 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.
Gottl. Rohleder and his wife Dorothea are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1.
Ludwig Rohleder from Nieder-Monjou, presumed to be the son of Johann Gottlieb Rohleder, and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or72.
Ludwig Rohleder and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Kaneau in Household No. 11.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann [Gottlieb] Rohleder was a farmer from the German region of Silesia. The 1767 census records that he was a soldier (Soldat) from the German town of Breslau in Prussia.
- 1834 Kaneau Census (Household No. 11).
- 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): Or72.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #159.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 185.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #1531.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1021-1022.
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