Daniel Rothhermel [sic] from Rhembach in the area of Nassau & Maria Elisabetha Ketter from Schwalbach were married on 16 April 1766 in the City Lutheran Church of Friedberg.
Daniel Rothermel, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Straub on 12 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 40.
Friedrich Rothermel and his sons are recorded on the 1811 census of Straub in Household No. 1 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of [Neu-]Straub.
Friedrich Rothermel and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Straub in Household No. 2.
Georg Philipp Rothermel from Neu-Straub and his family are recorded on the 1757 census of Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana.
The 1767 census records that Daniel Rothermel came from the German village of Stockstadt in the Darmstadt region.
- 1811 Straub Census (Household No. 1).
- 1834 Neu-Straub Census (Household No. 2).
- 1857 Neu-Yagodnaya-Polyana Census.
- 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): Sr01.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #315.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 239.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2072.
Brent Mai