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Roth (Anton)

Spelling Variations: 
Roth (Anton)
Ротъ (Anton)
Settled in the Following Colonies: 
Anton
Pre-Volga Origin: 
Wald-Michelbach, Kr. Bergstraße, Hessen
Discussion & Documentation: 

Johann Michael Röth, son of Hans Georg & Anna Barbara Röth, was born in Binsig and baptized on 24 May 1733 in Wald-Michelbach. He immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) where he married on 14 April 1760 in the colony of Altona to Eva Katharina Krämer, daughter of Hans Adam & Sibilla Krämer. She had been born in Siedelsbrunn and baptized on 5 February 1737 also in Wald-Michelbach.

In 1763, the Röth family immigrated to Russia, arriving in the colony of Anton on 7 September 1764. They are recorded there along with their children (Johann Michael, Johann Christian, and Eva Catharina) on the 1767 census in Household No. 7.

Sources: 

- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga.
- Parish records for Wald-Michelbach (LDS Film No. 1340338).
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 53.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Gerhard Lang

Brent Mai

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies