Rothler*
Heinrich Rothler, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, children (Marianna, age 4; Joseph, age 1), and [step-]son Philipp Scherscher (age 13) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the Die Neue Freiheit von Bremen under the command of Skipper Steingrawer.
Heinrich Rothler, a farmer, his wife Elisabeth, and children (Maria, age 4; Joseph, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Preuss in Household No. 75 along with stepson Philipp Scherscher (age 13). The had settled in Preuss on 15 July 1767.
In 1788, widower Heinrich Rothler moved from Preuss to Seelmann.
Joseph Rothler and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps61.
The death of Joseph Rothler in 1803 is recorded on the 1811 census of Preuss in Household No. 61.
The 1767 census records that Heinrich Rothler came from the Champagne region of France.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1811 Preuss Census (Household No. 61).
- 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): Ps61, Mv2338.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 425.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2009.
Brent Mai