Franz Anthes, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Barbara, age 17¼; Adam, age 15; Elisabeth Barbara, age 12; Anna Margaretha, age 10; Anna Maria, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
The 1798 census records son Adam Anthes in Rothammel (Household No. Rt11).
The 1834 census of Rothammel records that in 1832 Adam Anthes moved from Rothammel to Kamenka.
The 1767 census records that Franz Anthes came from the German village of Flech in the Worms region.
- 1834 Kamenka Census (Household No. 174).
- 1834 Rothammel Census (Household No. 72).
- 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): 430.
- 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): Rt11, Sd20.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 172.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3348.
Brent Mai