Thobias [sic] Jacob Rüsener & Johanna Dorothea Schmidt were married 2 September 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Tobias Jakob Rösner, a carpenter (Zimmermann) and miller (Müller), and his wife Maria Ohlschmidt settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 17 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 150.
Tobias Jakob Rösner, his wife Maria Magdalena Öhlschmidt, and children (Johann Christian, age 8; Johanna Elisabeth, age 3; Christiana Elisabeth (age ½) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 29.
The 1767 census records that Tobias Jakob Rösner came from the German village of Frose in Sachsen (Saxony). The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that Tobias Jakob Rösner came from the village of Frose in the region of Magdeburg and that his wife came from the village of Neuwirt in the region of Grabschaft.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 29).
- 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): Ka038.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #126.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 308.
Brent Mai