Valentin Reting [sic], a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named St. Johannes (Saint John) under the command of Skipper Carstens Stahl.
Johann Valentin Rothling and his wife Anna Margretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Valentin Röthling, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2.
The 1767 census records that Valentin Rötling came from the German village of Stenzel in the Fulda region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Röthling family among the Volga German colonies.
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