Roth (Wittmann)
Sebastian Roth, a farmer, his wife Dorothea, and son Johann [Michael] (age 6) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard an English frigate under the command of Skipper Adam Beerfeier.
Sebast. Roth, his wife Dorothea, and son Michaell (age 7) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Sebastian Roth, his wife Maria, and son Michael (age 8) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 32 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Wittmann in 1768.
In 1780, widow Maria Anna Roth and her son Heinrich moved from Wittmann to Katharinenstadt.
In 1788, Michael Roth moved from Zug to Luzern.
Michael Roth from Zug is recorded on the 1798 census of Luzern in Household No. Lz18.
The 1767 census records that Sebastian Roth came from the German village of Amt Wiesen near Bern.
- 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): Ka010, Lz18, Mv3010, Mv3062.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 269.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4772.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3640-3642.
Brent Mai