Rösser*
Konrad Rösser, a joiner (Tischler), his wife Anna, and [step]children (Johann [Wendel], age 16¼; Anna [Wendel], age 10¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a Russian packet-boat named Severnyi Orel (Northern Eagle) under the command of Lieutenant Pyotr Malenkov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Sewald on 20 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 7.
Widow Margaretha Rösser is recorded on the 1798 census of Sewald in Household No. Sd18.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Rösser was from the German village of Lorsch in the region of Mainz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rösser 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): Sd18.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 168.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2798.
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
Volga Colonies
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Konrad Rösser and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.