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 aboard an English frigate named 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.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Martin Roth came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Roth family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 226.
- 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.