Elisabeth Rath (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 August 1766 aboard the galliot named Die Perle (The Pearl) under the command of Skipper Gerhardt Hermann Thomsen along with her brother-in-law Johann Kaspar Geist, his wife Anna Margaretha [Rath], and daughter Anna Katharina (age 1).
Widow Elisabeth Schumacher née Rath (age 48) from Walter and her deceased son's family are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Fk113.
Widower Kaspar Geist and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt033.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Rath family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 777.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Fk113, Wt033.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6221.
Brent Mai