Wilhelm Rittor [sic], a joiner, his wife Anna, and sons (Konrad, age 7; Philipp, age 2) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Wilhelm Röder, a carpenter (Tischler), his wife Anna Eva, and stepson Konrad Helfrich Wiltendorf are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 137.
In 1788, Wilhelm Röder left Grimm.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Rittor [sic] came from the German region of Sachsen (Saxony). The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Röder came from the German village of Weimar in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
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): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 476.
- 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): Mv0764.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 81.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3721.
Brent Mai