Jakob Roth, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Georg (age 18½) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
Jakob Roth, a mason (Maurer), his wife Anna Maria, and his son by his first wife Johann Wilhelm (age 19) settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 3.
The widow and son of Wihelm Roth are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr088.
Heinrich Wilhelm Roth, son of Wilhelm Roth, is recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. 88.
[Heinrich] Wilhelm Roth and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Warenburg in Household No. 85.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Roth came from the German region of the Pfalz. The 1767 census records that Jakob Roth came from the German village of Singhofen in the Nassau region.
- 1811 Warenburg Census (Household No. 88).
- 1834 Warenburg Census (Household No. 85).
- 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): 93.
- 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): Wr026, Wr088.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 322.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #415.
Brent Mai