Roth (Grimm)

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Roth (Grimm)
Ротъ (Grimm)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Philipp Roth, a stocking maker, his wife Margaretha, his son Johann (age 1½), and his wife's sister Anna (age 38) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the pink Lev under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.

Philipp is recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 82 along with his new wife Wilhelmina.

They are recorded on the 1798 census in Households No. Gm062, Gm099, Gm107, and Gm155.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Roth came from the German region of Hanau.

Sources: 

- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 82).
- 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): Gm062, Gm099, Gm107, Gm155.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2324.

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