Roth (Bauer)
Widow Anna Margaretha Roth (age 40) and her children (Georg Peter, age 10; Maria Margaretha, age 8) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 9 September 1765.
Georg Peter Roth (age 16) and his sister Anna Margaretha (age 14) settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 20 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 15 along with their mother and stepfather, Franz Heinrich Esler.
The 1765 Worms list records that Anna Margaretha Roth came from the German village of Miesau. The 1767 census records that the Roth family came from the German village of Schürfeld [?] in the Kurpfalz region.
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- 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): Br33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 119.
Brent Mai