Röthling (Semenovka)*
Valentin Reting [sic] and his wife Anna Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the galliot Johannes under the command of Skipper Stahl.
Johann Valentin Rothling and his wife Anna Margretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Valentin Röthling, a farmer, and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2.
The 1767 census records that Valentin Rötling came from the German village of Stenzel in the Fulda region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Röthling family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 177.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #6315.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #8535-8536.
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