Johannes Rossner, his wife Kunigunda, and son Johann (age 22) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Wachsamkeit (Vigilance) under the command of Skipper Jacob Heinrich Sager.
Johannes Rosner [sic], his wife Cunigunda, and son Johannes (age 24) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Cunigunda died en route.
Johannes Rossner, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 11 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20 along with stepson Johann Rassler (age 8).
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johannes Rossner came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that Johannes Rossner came from the German village of Steinheim in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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