Christian Ross [sic] & Catharina Meisch were married on 13 March 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
There is a Christian Rose who arrived with his wife Katharina and daughter Renetta (age 2½) from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. This Christian Rose is recorded on the Oranienbaum passenger list as a hatter (Hutmacher) from the German region of Darmstadt.
Christian Rose, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Katharina Rosina are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 24. They had settled there on 10 June 1767.
The death of Christian Rose on 2 November 1802 (age 66) is recorded in the parish register of Stahl am Karaman.
Descendants of Christian Rose are recorded on the 1834 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 48.
The Christian Rose on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman is recorded from the German village of Gern [?] in the region of Schlesien (Silesia).
- 1834 Stahl am Karaman Census (Household No. 48).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 255.
- 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): Sk24.
- 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): #426.
- Parish register of Stahl am Karaman.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 197.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1829.
Brent Mai