Roth (Moor)*
Martin Roth, a farmer, his wife Anna, daughter Anna (age 6), and [nephew] Georg [Ernst] (age 20) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 [4 July 1766 per Plehve publication is incorrect] aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Martin Roth, a farmer, his wife Gertraud, daughter Maria Elisabeth (age ½), and orphaned nephew Hans Georg Ernst (age 21) are recorded on the 1767 census of Moor in Household No. 58. They had settled in Moor on 18 June 1767.
The 1767 census records Martin Roth came from the German district of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Roth family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 170.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1601.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording Martin Roth and his family.
Source: Brent Mai.