Peter Rossbach, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughters (Anna, age 13; Christina, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Börse von Lübeck under the command of Skipper Martin Friedrich Markau.
Johann Peter Rossbach, a bleacher (Bleicher), his wife Katharina Elisabeth, and daughters (Anna Maria, age 14; Christina Margaretha, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 54 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Norka in 1768. They had settled in Laub on 19 August 1767.
Christina Beltz née Rossbach and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr076.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Rossbach came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that this Johann Peter Rossbach came from the German town of Frankfurt am Main.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rossbach family among the Volga German families.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 383.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 33.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2926.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Peter Rossbach and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.