The baptisms of the following children born to Johann Peter Roth & Marta Elisabeth Nöll are recorded in the parish register of Hopfgarten: (1) Johann Paul, baptized 21 April 1748; (2) Johann Heinrich, baptized 25 March 1750; (3) Johannes, baptized 21 September 1752; (4) Johannes, baptized 10 March 1755; (5) Eleonora, baptized 1 September 1757; and (6) Anna Maria, baptized 3 April 1762.
Johann Rohd, a farmer, his wife Marta, and children (Johann, age 18; Heinrich, age 16; Johannes, age 14; Johannes [again], age 11; Eleonora, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johann Peter Rohd, his wife Martha Elisabetha, and children (Johann Paul, age 19; Johann Heinrich, age 18; Johannes, age 14; Johannes [again], age 12; Eleonora, age 9) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Peter Roth, a farmer, his wife Martha Elisabeth, and children (Johannes Paul, age 20; Johann Heinrich, age 18; Johannes, age 16; Johannes [again], age 14; Elisabeth, age 10½) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou. They settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya.
In 1786, Paul Roth and his family moved from Paulskaya to Susannental.
The widow and children of Paul Roth and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Susannental in Household No. Ss08.
Widow Anna Rosina Roth née Mettich [presumed widow of either Johann Heinrich or Johannes (the older)] and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Susannental in Household No. Ss17.
Johannes Roth (the younger) and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Susannental in Household No. Ss18.
Widow Eleonora Wogau née Roth and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka005.
The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Roth came from the German village of Vadenrod in the Darmstadt region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Ka005, Ss08, Ss17, Ss18, Mv2205.
- Parish register of Hopfgarten.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 222.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4643.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2756-2762.
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