Rohschauer
Spelling Variations:
Rohschauer
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Kaspar Rohschauer, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig Mercurius under the command of Skipper Christian Heinrich Abelßen.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Rothammel on 21 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 14.
The 1767 census records that Kaspar Rohschauer came from the German village of Käfertal in the Kurpfalz region.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 84.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3333.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai