Jakob Rödinger, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Rosenheim on 27 June 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 67.
Adam Redinger (age 9) and his brother Gottlieb Redinger (age 6), sons of the deceased Jakob Redinger, are recorded on the 1798 census of Rosenheim in Household No. Rm07.
Adam Redinger and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 6. The death of Adam Redinger in 1848 is recorded on the 1850 census of Rosenheim in Household No. 11.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Rodinger came from the German region of Dienheim while the 1767 census records that he came from the German Herrschaft von Gleichen.
- 1834 Rosenheim Census (Household No. 6).
- 1850 Rosenheim Census (Households No. 11, 12).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 392.
- 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): Rm07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 78.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3005.
Brent Mai