Frank (Rothammel-1)
Heinrich Frank, a miller (Müller), and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767. Heinrich Frank, a miller (Müller), his wife Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Barbara (age ¼) are recorded on the 1767 census of Rothammel in Household No. 3 along with three Degenhardt brothers (Valentin, age 18; Jakob, age 12; Johann Adam, age 7). The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Frank and Degenhardt families.
Heinrich Frank and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Rothammel in Household No. Rt27.
Joseph Frank, grandson of Heinrich Frank, is recorded on the 1834 census of Rothammel in Household in No. 31 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Brabander in 1834.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Frank came from the German village of Leutesdorf in the Trier region.
- 1834 Rothammel Census (Household No. 31).
- 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): Rt27, Rt30.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 82.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3317.
Brent Mai