Johann Georg Rothgang, a single tailor (Schneider), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Johann Georg Rothgang is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe on 5 September 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55.
In 1788, Johann Rothgang and his family moved from Lauwe to Laub.
Georg Rothgang and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb05.
The sons of Georg Rothgang and their families are recorded on the 1834 census of Laub in Households No. 20 & 92.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Georg Rothgang came from the German region of Schwaben (Swabia). The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Rothgang came from the German village of Munningen in the Enslingen region.
- 1834 Laub Census (Households No. 20, 92).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 660.
- 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): Lb05, Mv1518.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 49.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5244 (p.336).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2110.
Brent Mai