Johann Rothenburg, a stocking maker, his wife Anna, and daughter Magdalena (age 18) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Johannes Rothenburg, his wife Catarina [sic], and daughter Magdalena (age 18) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from Oranienbaum to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Catarina [sic] died in route.
Johann Rothenburg, a farmer, is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 71.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that he came from the German region of Holstein.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rothenburg family among the Volga German colonies.
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