Johann Adam Rösser [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Konrad, age 22; Maria Elisabeth, age 20; Elisabeth, age 16; Johann, age 12; Katharina, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
The children of the deceased Adam Renser (Elisabeth, age 18; Katharina, age 12; Johannes, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Hildmann in Household No. 45. They had arrived in Hildmann on 20 August 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Adam Rösser [sic] came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that the Resner family came from the German village of Gelnhausen.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Resner family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 281.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 108.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2048.
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