Samuel Rösner, a farmer, his wife Anna Maria née Balzer (widow Bramm), daughter Anna Elisabeth (age 4), and step-sons (Johann Heinrich Michael Bram, age 16; August Bram, age 7) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 55.
Widower Samuel Rösner and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka056.
The Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Samuel Rösner came from Denmark and his wife came from the German village of Burhartsfeld in the region of Hessen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rösner family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 55).
- 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): Ka056.
Brent Mai