Roth (Volmer)
Johann Peter Roth (age 39), a farmer, his wife Barbara Fischer (age 39), children (Catharina, age 17; Johann Friedrich, age 8; Johannes, age 4; Johann Georg, age 1), stepdaughter Sophia Ledert (age 15), and future son-in-law (Zukünftiger Tochtermann) Johann Nicolaus Mathias (age 25) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had all arrived in Worms on 22 September 1765.
Peter Roth, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 3.
In 1796, Peter Roth and his family moved from Volmer to Husaren.
The 1765 Worms list records that Johann Peter Roth came from the German village of St. Lamprecht. The 1767 census records that Peter Roth came from the German village of Neustadt in the Kurpfalz region.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Einige Kapitel aus der Geschichte des Kolonisationsprojects von Katharina II, 1763-1775 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2021): 127 (#346-353).
- 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): Hn11, Vm04, Mv2943.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 286.
Brent Mai