Johann Gottfried Lautsch, a miller in Rosefeld, son of the deceased August Christian Lautsch from Köthen, Neustadt, married on 16 April 1752 in Scheuder to Anna Catharina Schwerdtfeger, daughter of Andreas & Dorothea Catharina Schwerdtfeger. She had been born 27 September 1733 in Rosefeld.
The parish register of Scheuder records the baptisms of the following children born (in Rosefeld) to Johann Gottfried Lautsch & Anna Catharina Schwerdtfeger: (1) Anna Eleonora Catharina Sophia, born 6 March 1753; (2) Johann Michael Martin Gottfried, born 7 December 1754, died 21 Septeber 1763; (3) Johann George Wilhelm, 9 September 1757; (4) Maria Sophia, born 3 February 1761, died 28 March 1763; and (5) Catharina Sophia, born 24 September 1765.
Gottfried Lautsch moved from Köthen to Rosefeld in 1752. An old manuscript notes on 24 May 1766 that Gottfried Lautsch and his family are living in the small village of Rosefeld. His family of 5 (two daughters and a son) immigrated to Russia.
Gottfried Lautsch, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Katharina, age 16; Georg, age 8; Anna, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Gottfried Lautsch, his wife Anna Dorothe., and children (Cathar., age 16; Georg, age 10; Anna Maria, age 1½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widow Anna Dorothea Lautsch and her daughters (Katharina, age 16; Maria, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Boisroux in Household No. 45. They had settled there on 7 June 1767.
Many families on this frigate settled in Boisroux, and in 1775, widow Maria Katharina Lautsch moved from Boisroux to Meinhard where her daughter married David Fink.
Widow Katharina Lautsch, her daughter, and daughter's family are recorded on the 1798 census of Meinhard in Household No. Mn12.
The 1767 census records that Anna Dorothea Zeutsch came from the German village of Rosenfeld in the Dessau region and that Gottfried Lautsch came from the German region of Dessau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Mn12, Mv0286.
- Parish register of Scheuder.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1344.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #0700-0704.
Brent Mai
Karl Becker
Waldemar Kurt
Publication of the pending sale of the house of Gottfried Lautsch of Rosefeld and its contents.
"Nach dem Gottfried Lautsch, von Rosefeld, sich heimlich außer Landes begeben, mithin dessen daselbst verlassenes Haus, Hof und Garten, mit 1 Hufe Acker und sonstigen Zubehörungen, zum öffentlichen Verkauf gebracht, und pro termino licitationis per 4. Juli c. a. anberaumer worden . . ."
Source: Karl Becker.
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