Roth (Semenovka)

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

Johann[es] Roth, his wife Christina, and daughter Katharina (age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Hermann Anderson.

Joh. Roth, his wife Catharina, and daughter Catharina (age ¼) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Semenovka on 24 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Roth was a farmer from the German village of Fauerbach. The 1767 census records that Johannes Roth was a craftsman (Handwerker) from the German village of Busbach in the Stolberg region.

Sources: 

- 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): Se25.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 179.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6595.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7449-7451.

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Pre-Volga Origin

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