David Roth, a farmer, his wife Eleonora, and son Johann Michael (age 5½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg. David Roth & Anna Eleonora Möbus had been married in 1765 in Büdingen, so this Johann Michael is not their son. He is believed to be Johann Michael Guttmann, probably a child from an earlier marriage of Anna Eleonora Möbus.
In 1788, Michael Guttmann moved from Kraft to Messer.
Michael Gutmann from Kraft is recorded on the 1798 census of Messer in Household No. Ms72.
- 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): Ms72, Mv1361.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5101.
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
no results
Volga Colonies
Immigration Locations
No results